From Commitment to Commercialization: Unlocking Markets for African-Made Health Products

African Manufacturing Pre-Marketplace ForumReport | 12–13 March 2026 | Africa CDC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Background Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, convened “The African Manufacturing Pre-Marketplace Forum” on 12-13 March 2026, at the Africa CDC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Building on the success of the second […]

Call for Applications: Industrial Fellowship Programme in Vaccine Manufacturing

Objective: To enable graduates to acquire to the industrial technical skills for the Vaccine Manufacturing Industry. Scaling vaccine manufacturing and R&D across the continent to meet PAVM’s 2040 ambitions will require quadrupling the vaccine workforce to approximately 12,500 full-time employees (FTEs). Currently, there is a scarcity of vaccine development and manufacturing talent in Africa. Today, […]

Call for Applications: Biomanufacturing Fellowship Programme

BackgroundThe African Union/African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have called for a New Public Health Order which will safeguard the health and economic security of the continent as it strives to meet the aspirations of Agenda 2063. A key pillar of this mandate seeks to expand the local manufacture of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. […]