{"id":4164,"date":"2022-03-11T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:37:11","slug":"centro-africano-para-controle-e-prevencao-de-doencas-assina-memorando-com-a-pfizer-para-fornecimento-de-pilulas-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2022\/03\/11\/centro-africano-para-controle-e-prevencao-de-doencas-assina-memorando-com-a-pfizer-para-fornecimento-de-pilulas-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC signs MOU with Pfizer to supply COVID-19 pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/000_1PR5YI.webp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/000_1PR5YI.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica\u2019s top public health agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to bring supplies of the pharmaceutical firm\u2019s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe memorandum of understanding is with the legal office at the AU [African Union]\u201d, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told an online media briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is a unit of the African Union.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes within days of Moderna signing a deal with Kenya to build its first mRNA facility and a statement by South African drugmaker Aspen to sell, package and distribute Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/10\/africa-cdc-signs-mou-with-pfizer-to-supply-covid-19-pills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Al Jazeera \u201cAfrica\u2019s top public health agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to bring supplies of the pharmaceutical firm\u2019s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to the continent. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2022\/03\/11\/centro-africano-para-controle-e-prevencao-de-doencas-assina-memorando-com-a-pfizer-para-fornecimento-de-pilulas-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Africa CDC signs MOU with Pfizer to supply COVID-19 pills<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[298,43,25,281,292,224],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}