Journal article
Tackling human and animal health threats through innovative vaccinology in Africa
- Abstract:
- Africa bears the brunt of many of the world’s most devastating human and animal infectious diseases, a good number of which have no licensed or effective vaccines available. The continent’s potential to generate novel interventions against these global health threats is however largely untapped. Strengthening Africa’s vaccine research and development (R&D;) sector could accelerate discovery, development and deployment of effective countermeasures against locally prevalent infectious diseases, many of which are neglected and have the capacity to spread to new geographical settings. Here, we review Africa’s human and veterinary vaccine R&D; sectors and identify key areas that should be prioritized for investment, and synergies that could be exploited from Africa’s veterinary vaccine industry, which is surprisingly strong and has close parallels with human vaccine R&D;.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.12688/aasopenres.12877.2
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- Publisher:
- F1000Research
- Journal:
- AAS Open Research More from this journal
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 18
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-19
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2515-9321
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- Copyright holder:
- Warimwe et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © 2018 Warimwe GM et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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