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- Title
New approaches to vaccines for endemic and pandemic diseases of Africa with particular focus on building local competencies in Cameroon.
- Authors
Titanji, Vincent P. K.
- Abstract
Vaccines have been recognized as major and effective tools for the control and eventual elimination of infectious diseases and cancer. This brief review examines vaccine classification and development pipeline as well as recent innovations driving the vaccine development process. Using COVID-19 as an example recent innovation in vaccine development are highlighted. The review ends with a call for intensified efforts to build vaccine production capacity in Cameroon and other other African countries.
- Subjects
AFRICA; CAMEROON; COVID-19 vaccines; COMMUNICABLE diseases; VACCINE development
- Publication
Cameroon Academy of Sciences Journal, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
2617-3948
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/jcas.v17i1.6