President Cyril Ramaphosa
Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus,
Your Excellency President Emmanuel Macron of France, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the full extent of the vaccine gap between developed and developing economies, and how that gap can severely undermine global health security.
Today marks an important milestone towards the achievement of one of the critical objectives of the African Union’s Agenda 2063: the Africa we want.
The ability to manufacture vaccines, medicines and other health-related commodities will help to put Africa on a path to self-determination.