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Africa CDC, Institut Pasteur De Dakar and the South African Medical Research Council Take Concrete Action to Ramp Up Africa’s Biomanufacturing Workforce. read full article at worldnews365.me

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  • Africa CDC, Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) and the South African Medical Analysis Council (SAMRC) are co-hosting the primary Biomanufacturing Workforce Growth workshop in Africa.
  • Over 30 associate organisations will contribute to understanding the panorama of biomanufacturing coaching, gaps and alternatives for constructing a gifted and expert workforce on the continent to creategreater vaccine provide resilience for Africa.

La Pointe Sarène, Senegal 07/02/2022; Over 30 associate organisations will be part of from seventh to ninth February to take part within the first Biomanufacturing Workforce Growth workshop co-hosted by Africa CDC, IPD and SAMRC.

The Africa CDC has set the formidable aim to fabricate 60% of the vaccine doses required on the continent by 2040. But, Africa presently solely produces about 0.1% of the worldwide provide of vaccines. In reaching this imaginative and prescient of making better vaccine provide resilience for Africa, important investments have to be made to develop a talented workforce for deployment within the analysis, improvement and manufacturing business. Current estimates by the Africa CDC reveal that between 6000 and 7000 expert jobs will have to be created in Africa by 2030 for the vary of wants of the vaccine manufacturing business alone.

On this context, the Africa CDC, IPD and SAMRC are becoming a member of forces to totally perceive the capability constructing wants and ambitions in Africa, to get the total image of coaching initiatives obtainable regionally, regionally and globally, and determine gaps and alternatives.

This very sensible workshop will lead to concrete roadmaps to attain goals within the house of biomanufacturing workforce improvement, it is going to additionally handle the way to create a beneficial ecosystem for scalable and sustainable financing of coaching programmes in Africa and one of the best mannequin of partnerships and governance to attain the continental ambition.

This occasion additionally launches the IPD biomanufacturing human capital improvement initiative Data & Workforce for Africa Manufacturing’s Fairness (KWAME), which is intrinsically linked to the MADIBA undertaking to fabricate and provide high-quality, reasonably priced and related vaccines for Africa in Senegal.

“As Africa CDC, we view this workshop, which brings stakeholders participating in developing talent for Biopharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, as critical. The need to understand the roles of all the stakeholders is cardinal for optimal resource utilisation and effective coordination as outlined in the continental Framework for Action for vaccine manufacturing,” mentioned Dr Ahmed Ouma Ogwell, Ag. Director of Africa CDC.

“Today, more than 60% of Africa’s population is under 25 and young Africans are expected to constitute 42% of global youth by 2030. These young men and women are very valuable assets for the continent, and we have a great opportunity to develop this human capital today to build a successful new industry in Africa relying on its own talents tomorrow. One of the key objectives of KWAME is to ‘accelerate the development of a workforce that is formally trained in Africa through collaborations with African countries and manufacturers and with a long-term vision at the level of the higher education system to support manufacturing projects on the continent’. This will not be possible without robust partnerships, and I am therefore delighted that so many of our partners have committed to contributing to this 3-day workshop.” Mentioned Dr Amadou Alpha Sall, CEO of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar

“Building a workforce in Africa is a fundamental aspect of great importance. We simply cannot seek to manufacture biopharmaceuticals without developing a skilled workforce for the future. We are delighted to be part of this workshop and share our experiences with the Chan- Soon-Shiong Family Foundation SAMRC Scholarship programs and training collaborations with international partners. We are seeking to build long-lasting collaborative solutions to this challenge.” Prof Richard Gordon, Director of Worldwide Enterprise Growth for the South African Medical Analysis Council.