Addressing challenges to rolling out COVID-19 vaccines in African countries

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine and Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jnachega@sun.ac.za.
• ² International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria; Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
• ³ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
• ⁴ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁵ Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ⁶ School of Public Health, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda; School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• ⁷ Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo; Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁸ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁹ School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
• ¹⁰ Université Catholique de Bukavu, Centre d'Ethique Medicale, Bukavu, DR Congo.
• ¹¹ Panzi Hospital, Université Evangelique en Afrique, Bukavu, DR Congo.
• ¹² Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique.
• ¹³ Division of Health Systems and Public Health, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; Western Cape Department of Health, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DR Congo; National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
• ¹⁵ Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
• ¹⁶ Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.