Absa Insights Series

The global shift to cleaner energy technologies provides Africa with a unique opportunity to accelerate its development and enhance its prosperity – though there are risks as well that must be carefully managed.

Effective management during a pandemic needs to be supported with cross-sector partnerships and sustainable funding.

The Global Fund is a partnership designed to accelerate the end of epidemics.

Africa CDC is crucial in coordinating vaccination efforts to ensure we reach the 60% vaccination target.

Momentum Metropolitan has 36 vaccination centers across the country, open to both the insured and uninsured market, and have been instrumental in bringing telehealth to the home through Hello Doctor.

The COVID-19 vaccination coverage is low in Africa, with less than 2% of the 1.2bn population vaccinated. With Biovac partnering with Pfizer to produce about 100mn doses annually, Liza Eustace, Head of Healthcare, Construction and Hospitality Sectors at Absa CIB, spoke to Dr. Morena Makhoana, CEO of Biovac, about his learnings and predictions during this time.

To date, Dischem has delivered over 250,000 vaccinations across the nation. Rui Morais, talks about how they have leveraged their extensive network to build capacity for mass vaccination sites in collaboration with government and other private sector players.

Imperial Logistics is South Africa’s largest logistics company and has been awarded the tender to import COVID-19 vaccines for the country’s vaccination programme.

The Life Healthcare Group have shown enormous commitment in the treatment of private and public patients during the pandemic and has made major strides in the vaccination rollout.

Aspen is well known to the South African market as being the first to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in Africa; the production of which has been instrumental in ensuring an increase in supply to the African continent.

Liza Eustace shares her insights on the importance of getting the country and the continent vaccinated against COVID19 in order to help boost economic recovery and growth.

Absa’s Liza Eustace unpacks exactly how COVID-19 is negatively impacting the sector