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A ‘landmark’ trial to test mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 in Africa can’t get the coveted shots

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Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.The questions are urgent, and the funding is in place.

But a highly anticipated, $130 million clinical trial, meant to test the efficacy of the novel messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for COVID-19 against a key variant of the pandemic coronavirus as well as in people living with HIV and pregnant women, is stalled.

It is ready to launch in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa, yet neither maker of the vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, wants to participate—or even provide their vaccines.A group of prominent HIV advocates and activists in South Africa has written a letter complaining about the delay to U.S.

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