POLITICO's Ryan Heath speaks with Strive Masiyiwa, the head of the Union’s vaccination effort, about the race to reverse engineer Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa. Plus: Masiyiwa shares his reaction when he learned the Indian government placed export bans on vaccines, including those that were supposed to head to Africa.
POLITICO's Ryan Heath speaks with Strive Masiyiwa, the head of the Union’s vaccination effort, about the race to reverse engineer Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa. Plus: Masiyiwa shares his reaction when he learned the Indian government placed export bans on vaccines, including those that were supposed to head to Africa.
Strive Masiyiwa is the head of the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team and the founder and executive chairman of Econet.
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