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The logo and building of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 15 April 2020
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) announced today it will establish a global training centre to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments.
Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the hub would be in South Korea and would use messenger RNA technology being studied by scientists working for the WHO in South Africa, where it is trying to recreate the Moderna mRNA vaccine.
Moderna and fellow pharmaceutical giant Pfizer-Biontech, which also produces an mRNA vaccine, have refused the WHO’s request for access to their vaccine formulas. Moderna’s is believed to be easier to reconstruct.
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