Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015 | Environment News Service.
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2014 (ENS) – At a high-level emergency meeting convened by the World Health Organization on Thursday, pharmaceutical companies developing Ebola vaccines committed to accelerate production capacity for millions of doses to be available in the first quarter of 2015.
Regulatory authorities in countries where the vaccines are manufactured and in Africa committed to supporting this goal by working under extremely short deadlines.
To help control the ongoing Ebola epidemic that has claimed nearly 5,000 lives, most in the West African countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – the WHO is coordinating the fast track testing and deployment of several vaccines.
The WHO convened the emergency meeting at the request of several governments and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry. The 90 participants discussed access to near-term vaccines, the financing of vaccine and immunization campaigns and the design, production capacity, regulation and indemnity of clinical trials in at least seven countries.
Trials of vaccines have already begun in the United States, the United Kingdom and Mali, and are beginning in Gabon, Germany, Kenya and Switzerland to determine safety, dosing and efficacy.
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