Department of Science, Technology and Innovation believes that one day Africa will manufacture vaccines.
The Departments Acting Director-General Daan Du Toit says it is not out of Africas reach to manufacture the bulk of the vaccines it most needs.
He was addressing the Bio Africa convention in Durban, saying that the departments announcement to promote local pharmaceuticals, comes at a time when science funding is scarce.
Du Toit says he believes that the countrys vaccine strategy will bear fruit.
So yes, in difficult times, we are aware of it. But with ambition and this is what we have here and focus on strategic work I have absolutely no doubt that a decade, two decades and hopefully much shorter from now we will be looking at this strategy having that decisive impact. Not only on science in South Africa but also on public health in Africa.
