{"id":41053,"date":"2026-07-29T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41053"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:52:39","slug":"health-expert-urges-africa-to-stockpile-vaccines-ahead-of-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/health-expert-urges-africa-to-stockpile-vaccines-ahead-of-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Health expert urges Africa to stockpile vaccines ahead of outbreaks \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#8217;s ability to effectively respond to future disease outbreaks will largely depend on building stronger, community-based health systems, according to global health experts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 26th International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, Dr Vincent Muturi-Kioi, HIV Vaccines Product Development Team Lead at international non-profit IAVI, highlighted that lessons learned over decades of responding to HIV are vital for tackling emerging infectious diseases like Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Muturi-Kioi urged African nations to boost local preparedness by securing essential counter-measures before crises hit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;African countries are experiencing more and more outbreaks of these emerging infectious diseases,&#8221; said Muturi-Kioi. &#8220;We need to be better prepared with countermeasures, vaccines and drugs in countries that are able to respond much faster to prevent these outbreaks from getting large and out of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that for diseases such as Ebola, establishing local stockpiles in high-risk regions and vaccinating healthcare workers in advance with tested vaccines would significantly improve outcomes on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41054,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41053","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Experts call for faster African outbreak response","published_date":"2026-07-29 18:50:18","news_description":"Experts call for faster African outbreak response","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41055,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41053\/revisions\/41055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}