Johnson & Johnson Joins World Health Organization in Efforts to Prevent Spread of Ebola in West Africa

Discussions are ongoing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the approval of the vaccine regimen in the U.S. WHO Prequalification is often a prerequisite for national registrations of new vaccines and medicines in developing countries. Johnson & Johnson now looks forward to collaborating with the WHO’s African Vaccine Regulatory Forum (AVAREF) to progress national registrations of the Company’s Ebola vaccine regimen. The Company’s Ebola vaccine regimen is designed to be used proactively to induce immunity against Ebola virus disease in adults and children. Johnson & Johnson’s Commitment to Ebola & Pandemic PreparednessJohnson & Johnson is one of the few innovative healthcare companies in the world today that is actively advancing science across multiple disease areas with the aim of strengthening public health. We accelerated the development of our Ebola vaccine regimen in 2014 in response to the worst Ebola outbreak on record, which took place in West Africa from 2014-2016 and caused more than 11,000 deaths. In 2019, in response to the second-worst outbreak which took place 2018-2020 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Johnson & Johnson announced it would provide its Ebola vaccine regimen to assist immunization efforts in the affected region and in neighboring Rwanda through the UMURINZI vaccination campaign. This marked the first widespread deployment of Ebola vaccines in an outbreak setting. The Rwandan Ministry of Hea...
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