Africa Business Radio

The Gates Foundation is the latest international donor offering to address the looming shortage of syringes for Covid-19 vaccination in Africa. This comes amid warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the shortage of crucial commodities such as syringes was slowing the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the continent. Kenyan company Revital Healthcare is licensed to manufacture the syringes and will now benefit from the $4m grant from the Gates Foundation. The WHO and Unicef have predicted a shortfall of up to 2.2 billion syringes needed to administer the Covid-19 vaccines as well as other routine immunisations in 2022.