Access, funding stand in Africa’s path to getting Covid-19 vaccine

Covid-19 vaccine.

Dilhani Somaweera administers the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to Josephine Faleye at the Royal Free hospital in London on December 8. PHOTO | AFP

As many countries around the world are making important decisions about who gets vaccinated against Covid-19,  Africa is increasingly on a razor edge as access to the vaccine is not guaranteed.  

The challenge facing Africa is access: availability of the required vaccine doses and access to financing to make purchases.