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the code 900 pandemic has had a devastating impact around the world from putting enormous pressure on health care systems, in many cases to breaking point, to putting the world economy on trying to a possible recession. but the pandemic has also made clear another problem of all time global inequality. as wealthy countries stockpile cove at 900 vaccine, 50 percent of adults in europe, us and the u. k. i've now been fully vaccinated. vaccination rates remain extremely low in countries across africa. but few of the 2 percent of the continents people have been fully vaccinated. the african union and the world health organization that played a central role in the vaccination at. but across the continent. but $47.00 of africa, $54.00 countries are expected to miss september's target of vaccinating 10 percent that citizens. so how can we bridge the vaccine gap, threatening the african continent?

what plans are in place to increase the number of vaccines heading to the region? the director of the africa centers for disease control and prevention. doctor john, king of song talks to al jazeera ah, but the john men came to sol, director of africa center for disease control and prevention. thank you for talking to us on al jazeera, who just begin with your overall assessment of the code, 900 vaccine rollout across the continent. what are your initial impressions? the rule out. busy of the cupboard 900 back soon on the continent has been to this appointment as we speak today. less than 2 percent of the eligible population in africa has been a fully vast net, which is very unfortunate. if you recognize that we have to ease immunize up to about 70 percent of our population. and we have less than 2 percent that tell

you that we have an incredibly long do. i need to go to get to where we have to be . so it has been total. ready disappointment haven't set that is because, as you know, the african box in a position past team has now signed a contract of about 400000000 dollars use of johnson and johnson vaccines were delivering it about 2 weeks ago. so where we remained optimistic that the challenges in numbers we are making some progress in broad brush strikes. why has it been so bad for africa? was we've seen europe do incredibly well. it has been challenging to africa because we did not produce factions. we were hoping and relying on their cove us, which is the mechanism that was set up by gobby was had organization coalition for academic preparedness, innovation to have about sins,

distribute them in a timely fashion and the country and how many countries that actually contribute money into their cobra and are buying most vaccines. so it became a very challenging situation for the continent. was the kofax scheme and sort of the un auspices, a disappointment or a failure because it hasn't really helped africa the way it should house. and i would say that the principles behind callbacks that is to acquire vaccines, their basket and then made it available to. ready me to such in a timely fashion, the principal, under values, the values of corporation, their values of solidity were phone bet. it wasn't the implementation didn't really follow through it because of what i just explained earlier. that they're countries that mid pledges. i'm committed to supporting cove and of by and most of

the vaccines. so it became very challenging for a callback to get back to the situation in india that was caused by the baby and that emerged. it made it so that the government of india impose a bond on the export of boxes, especially to esther the nick of actions from india. so that made a situation very complex. it does raise the question, doesn't as a sort of vaccine equity, because that's been a huge talking point. this last for 18 months of the pandemic for global leaders, you know, in the western developed world, one might say they failed africa because one has to get african leaders to push. you might say, the developed world and politicians to listen to africa to help africa. and to make sure that their voices heard in terms of getting the vaccine and africa has been failed really by those promises that haven't been fulfilled by developed countries

. absolutely. i think it's as simple or should. that trick has been poorly served as to what our core international cooperation, unconciousness dirty when discipline and make sure that we set order right things the right things we had that we need. we need it time. the app says a particular distribution of actions. but when the about since we have variable, which in my view in my or more than 3 tickets in probably heard of allergies. sense was incredibly plus in producing vaccines. but haven't set that up for just you left behind and left behind significantly. so i think that this period of international cooperation and solidity, i fear africa significantly. well, let's just focus it now on the continent and recent w h i statistics suggest there is a north south divide in terms of infection rate. 64 percent increase in the south.

24 percent increase in the north. both areas account for 88 percent of the continents death toll algeria, botswana. d r. c s with teeny. the su to malawi, retainer based on beek, rwanda setting golf, south africa's in barb with libya, tennessee, and morocco, seeing huge delta very, and increases how concerned to you about the delta variant across the continent. i'm concerned about their top area and spread across the country in but no surprise . this is a virus that has an increase something usability rate of more than 40 to 50 percent compared to the wire type battery that we initially were dealing with. it has not ratio which is the rate of production of more it's it, which means that it's pressing in fact that has the chance of impacting it. more

people are accepting that is very concerned. and so i'm very concerned from 2 perspective. one is that because of the rapid spread of the database and we have seen her facilities across the continent that are fully overwhelmed. and this is a scenario that mirrors what we saw. ready in india, in april may timeline because of this situation as well, does there be in the database we are seeing that the best missions process would be for the challenge. so it is very concerned in what is even more concerned in is that we don't know what we don't know. we don't know that variance, we emerge that we're actually be even more aggressive. and more times mr. more challenging to dive, i've seen that we are using that i'm the desktop area. and so i think the best way to avoid that in my view would be to increase ability to for vast mission update

on, on the continent. because we now know that the desktop area is challenging people that are already been investigated. and we've seen up search in this new number new cases across the world. not just in africa, in terms of dealing with the pandemic in dealing with whether it's delta variance or any of the, of the variance in your opinion, all the, any countries across africa that are, you might be dealing with the situation in terms of the infrastructure in terms of hospitalization or the medical facilities that are available or is it just to unfair to say, you know, africa last calls, no country is actually dealing with this properly because they just don't have the facilities and the just to pull. no, absolutely. best no distribution mean africa of are or has been dealing with multiple waves of all of these make much phases. as you recall, as we speak about 32 countries in africa, i've been to a ted with about 4 or 5 again,

2 foot we've met. what is remarkable is that most countries up there would affect me if they brought it down. then of course, the ease the lock down situations, the virus picks up and they have to deal with a 2nd wave. and then the what does suggest to everybody is that after enough many countries in africa actually know how to implement probably had major because we don't know about students and the tools that we have in our disposition. now i probably had majors, of course, the lock bound. what is also a and is that you probably had made us alone were not enable us to avoid subsequent ways. we need massive vaccinations to enable us to prevent this ad rid him of lock bounds and then you have another wave and then you locked down. so i think

that he's not going to have kind of me and have have systems if we continue to do that. we just need to, again focus on getting back to so about how many countries in africa extremely, were in trying to maintain the spread of their barrows at levels that they can at least play with downs and then probably had majors and why waiting for. but since to arrive, but confounding the problem for those of us on the outside looking at what's going on across africa is when we hear news that countries like the democratic republic of congo below your south sudan have destroyed vaccines because the expiry date was very close to the potential for the using them. so whose fault is it? is the distribution issue? is it a lack of coordination in perspective, national countries that they have to get the vaccine out and into the arms of those that need? no, say you say that the vaccine is available, but in the same breath, we're now seeing physical evidence that the vaccines are having to be destroyed.

and that's incredibly disheartening for global population, who, somewhere in the world would say, you know what, i'd have taken that vaccine even if it was near is expiry date. i mean, any vaccine that is destroyed on the continent is a terribly unfortunate. we have to just see to see an african union, a very clear about that. and we are doing something that we have. we have teams in several countries that are supporting countries to make sure that those are vaccines that are variable actually used, especially as it is. but we have to put all these extra dance in context. i think this is the 1st time that it comes. then the continent of africa will be niche and adores upscale. and we also have to put out in the context that there was a lot of a disruption investigation programs where nisha, things were delivered. there were top people where he got to take about scenes, then they didn't know where to take the 2nd dose of the about seen. and there was a lot of misinformation and miscommunication down generated by social media and

across the world. not just enough, are gonna create a lot of a better early on misunderstanding mishaps approaches to what people should go get about students or not. but if you look at this edition, now you significantly of all, i mean, i'm just about for morocco last week where you saw lines, lines, people in sport stadium, which into received about since you're also seeing similar scenarios in rwanda, in kenya, where the along lines of people out there within to be to be about it included in the, our c. okay. i made, you know, you have used up about 99 percent of his vaccines waiting for about 2 days and in the mission. and now we see, especially with a few of the 3rd wave, where people he saw last and the people dying. i think the situation is changing a lot. now what we need is access to about since i don't think that so much

concerned with boxing hesitancy at this point. 2 things actually, because both the, you and the w h o r were encouraging and hoping that the 30 percent vaccination level of the population of the continent would be reached by the end of the year. and then you also have the added problem. if i can also suggest which is something that you've touched upon, is the way the vaccines are produced, that they're being produced, obviously in south africa. but it took several rather poser to actually step in and say, no. the vaccines that are produced in south africa should be for the continent and not exported beyond the content that you have these 2 scenarios at the moment. will you get 30 percent of the population vaccinated, and will you keep vaccines produced on the continent in the continent? it touched on a very important point. the political leadership of the continent in fighting discipline may have been extraordinary. and really exceptional in the fighting infection that is on the continent, the leadership expressed by preston post that as in east capacity previously as the

job the african union. and now there could be jumped on has been remarkable. and the stance to use intervention, personal commitment and intervention that some of those vaccines that were produced in south africa as ship outside of the continent were actually at taught it. and a whole arrangement was made so that africa should have its own vaccines produced in south africa. and that's how the african vaccine, that position testing that is coordinated by strive must actually begin to get about since i think that is a credit has to go to depress. then i put the african union commission to jefferson . was stuff like a demonstrative, extraordinary commitment to support in africa, you see, and to engage with different button so that the continents should have at about see . and so that is a scenario that we are learning from it and building on it as well. so we really

hope that going forward as a south africa send, they got rwanda. morocco, egypt begins to produce vaccines, does not seem to be used on the continent, not export that outside of the continent, the world health organization. and i'm quoting, the facts that we can get from these organizations predicts that 47 of the 54 countries that they've looked at in africa will miss house on the very modest sort of september target a vaccinating these tend to cent of their populations is, am i correct in thinking burundi is still one country that hasn't administered a single vaccine that poses the next question about vaccine hesitancy in some african countries. i mean tribal and religious issues sometimes get in the way of sheer fact and science. i remain hopeful that

about sin access situation will improve in the next coming months without it actually enable us to get to the target that we hope we had hope to achieve. that is to target up, immunize in 25 to 30 percent of our population by the end of the year, remains a question, but i think with effort from the african bucks in a position past him, we did donations that we are seeing increasingly made available by putting the united states from out of we really hope that those efforts to enable us to at least to get to the appropriate tag. if you need to jump in that doctor, i would appreciate yes that you're saying that you'd want to reach those targets with your relevant agency. what i'm talking about is the cultural differences across africa and tribal beliefs of traditional medicine against somebody who is a complete stranger, who comes into your village or town as, as i'm a scientist or what i put in your arm is much better than what you've been dealing

with on a tribal social level for decades, no days for any campaign to be successful against infectious diseases you have to factor in, but until you answer your competence that to fight did you have to do with your under trust capital that you'd be with a community, we saw this in your, in the outbreak in west africa. we saw this in d. c. where again, we have valuable us extremely difficult to, i mean, you stopped us about scenes on to unless we use the local community in doing that. so this is not new, i mean that use the concept of making sure that community the local community plays a center or in expanding the administration of any rock scenes or even treatment program is very, is known. i think as probably heard is, is global,

but implementation is look, i think that is true for or did you, this is also true for this is not unique for coding. we saw it is you didn't pull your campaigns and we see it is also in other muslim mission campaigns when at the different communities are actually resist that vaccines that are valuable. indeed, where we come to sort of vaccine availability and your hopes that you can get the continent vaccinated. the former british prime minister gordon brown has been very vocal in support of africa and criticized western powers. a big farmer over the attitude and promised to supply africa in a national british newspaper. back in mid august. he said that we did not just western governments, but big fathers have failed africa. where do you expect to get your supplies when you have a country like germany, reluctant to allow local pharmaceutical companies in africa to produce covered 19

vaccine? i think as i said earlier, that the secretion is improving the african vaccine that position test team has secured 400000000 doses of boxes. and that is the reality. and the distribution started. you know, now i know that 5 sign agreements with the about pharmaceutical companies in south africa. and i think that is very encouraging. you know, that, that partnership developing with synagogue the past day institute incentive got to develop bucks. and so we had a very, very encourage, but that may not be timely enough to address the challenge and the urgency that we have on our hands that you're absolutely right that we may be challenged tv challenge for a couple of months before we really see the appropriate inflow. ready of vaccines on the continent to think you'll be challenged even more as your head towards

winter and be those some countries are talking about booster shots. when many people across africa haven't even had one shot that is fortunate sufficient. and that fully agreed with. there were head organization where every doctor generally has asked for a suspension in administering both doses on to do most of the work. ready is needed, i think that is as not seeing the hands yet that i use for these boston or need for both. i think we had not seen that. if anyone not seeing that, i'm not i'll be happy to to read that. i think it would be unfortunate that the vast majority of the world continues to lack behind in vaccines and then be through talking about dream said that it would be a tread for everybody. because by doing what we,

that kind of behavior will only provoke encourage the emergence of new variance that who knows mich a challenge even exist in vaccines. that variable in our to kids to 5 koby in the work africa has many eminent scientists. it has many entrepreneurs, among wonders why africa hasn't found its own vaccine when countries like iran, cuba managed to develop their own and are managing to inoculate that publics as much as they possibly can. i mean that, that is a very important question. i think it is fair to say that africa has neglected the competence of our system completely at the we import as we speak to the port or. ready important, 99 percent of the vaccine, the only manufacture one percent of our boxes and at the same time, the country and consumes about 25 percent of our sins supplies

haven't set that. i think there's always time to begin. many countries in africa have now mobilized, they've taken the journey of producing vaccines like nigeria, gun synagogue, rwanda, south africa, egypt, broker. so i remain optimistic, but you're absolutely right that, that they've been neglected. she didn't have been neglected. they had 3. has security commodities that if people must have, in order to get empty and safe, got a security, they include the ability to produce diagnostics and the ability to produce, to protect and the ability to produce adoption. so africa has to engage in all 3 pop ways to guarantee to have security response ation green for that's what we are calling in new probably had order for the continent. and you probably had already said that we need to take all of our future and produce about 60 percent of our

students that we need. but in the next 20 years, china has gone down that route thailand and many other countries. there's absolutely no reason why africa she didn't go down that route at the africa see, to see. and the african union has developed the pottery and that vision for the continental embrace and walk that journey. and just finally, i think dr. you certainly have a great deal of hope for the continent intent for its potential. the g 7 are meeting later in september to discuss where cov, it stands right now globally, where the pandemic is. and what they can do to try and curtail it. what sort of will africa have at that g 7 meeting these, the countries that you mentioned, the united states, france gemini, at, or countries that africa has, has enjoyed good relationships with this should serve as a voice to echoed africa. what do we need to in the next 5 years, we will need about $30000000000.00 to fully vaccinate the continent. we are not

going to get rid of this covered $9000.00 in the next, next year. we're not going to get rid of cobit at a piece. we have been in 2023, so we need to actually sit down and develop a 5 years probe a 4 to 5 year program. that in my view, the cars, alistair, to be under, that's what that g 7 you'd be looking at. how do we structure funding that would release about $30000000000.00 over the next 5 years so that africa can get rid of this could be from the country to let's see if they do that dr. john and kang, his own director for the african center for disease control and prevention. thank you for talking to al jazeera. thank you with the plato. ah, how many nukes is too many new america has in many ways driven the arms race parties are much more like the british parties. now,

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