Nation | by Leon Lidigu
India has officially requested to be part of Kenya’s vaccine rollout through its vaccine maitri (Hindi for vaccine friendship) initiative. This comes a week after the country donated a consignment of 100,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Kenya.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has been supplying developing countries around the world with free coronavirus vaccine doses amid concerns that this “vaccine diplomacy” will come at a cost.
Historically, India’s entry into the manufacture of HIV drugs enabled access to them by countries in Africa that could not previously afford them…
