{"id":37130,"date":"2021-06-30T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37130"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:04:20","slug":"dfc-announces-financing-to-support-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturing-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37130","title":{"rendered":"DFC Announces Financing to Support COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>06\/30\/2021 01:46 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Today, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation\u00a0(DFC)\u00a0announced a\u00a0joint financing package of \u20ac600 million for Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd., headquartered\u00a0in South Africa,\u00a0to expand\u00a0local\u00a0vaccine manufacturing capacity.\u00a0\u00a0DFC is working together with DEG (Germany), Proparco (France), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide\u00a0financing support.\u00a0 The package will help increase capacity to support Aspen\u2019s efforts to produce COVID-19 vaccines with Stringent Regulatory Authorization (SRA) and\/or World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Use Listing, including the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccines will be primarily distributed to the African Union, South African Government, and COVAX.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0effort\u00a0supports the Administration\u2019s\u00a0goal\u00a0to scale\u00a0vaccine production, invest in African ingenuity and resilience, and\u00a0help the\u00a0global community\u00a0beat this COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2541845708975350582mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/30\/2021 01:46 PM EDT Ned Price,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37131,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37130\/revisions\/37131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}