Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is calling out "vaccine selfishness" in the world, but says it will "wake up" Africans to be self-sufficient.
President Museveni says Africa needs the raw materials to produce its own Covid vaccines rather than rely on donations from developed nations.
"Africans are a disgrace to ourselves. Why do we have to depend on the outside for everything? This is a big shame for Africa," he told delegates attending the World Health Summit on Sunday.
Museveni says countries across the continent need to stop waiting for vaccine donations and manufacture them locally.
"This selfishness in the world is bad, but is good. I like it because it wakes up Africans. It [is] a shame the whole of the African continent is just asleep, waiting to be saved by others like it happened during the slave trade," he says.
Museveni says Uganda is in the process of making its own Covid vaccine and only needs help with some raw materials: "Don’t worry, we shall buy them. We don’t need donations."
The African Union has been calling for a Covid vaccine patent waiver to allow the continent to make its own vaccines as a shortage continues in different countries.
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President Museveni says Africa needs the raw materials to produce its own Covid vaccines rather than rely on donations from developed nations.
"Africans are a disgrace to ourselves. Why do we have to depend on the outside for everything? This is a big shame for Africa," he told delegates attending the World Health Summit on Sunday.
Museveni says countries across the continent need to stop waiting for vaccine donations and manufacture them locally.
"This selfishness in the world is bad, but is good. I like it because it wakes up Africans. It [is] a shame the whole of the African continent is just asleep, waiting to be saved by others like it happened during the slave trade," he says.
Museveni says Uganda is in the process of making its own Covid vaccine and only needs help with some raw materials: "Don’t worry, we shall buy them. We don’t need donations."
The African Union has been calling for a Covid vaccine patent waiver to allow the continent to make its own vaccines as a shortage continues in different countries.
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