While the pandemic brought new entrants into the market, vaccine manufacturing remains a complex activity undertaken by a limited number of companies with the overall picture largely unchanged by COVID-19.
Sanofi has made a new five-year, $25m partnership agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight Neglected Topical Diseases (NTD); and eliminate sleeping sickness by 2030.
The WHO has announced plans to extend its prequalification scheme to include cancer biosimilars and says it will pressure industry for fairer prices for all biologics.