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Canada's largest charity will spend $1.3 billion (USD) over the next three years to provide vaccines for 50 million Africans in what the director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says is a game changer for Africa. The MasterCard Foundation's donation also will help train workers for a planned vaccine manufacturing sector in Africa. Even as many African countries face a third wave, less than 2 percent of Africans have received any vaccine, and the non-profit COVAX initiative faces supply shortages due to India's pandemic. The African Union, which had aimed to vaccinate 60 percent of the continent's 1.3 billion people by the end of next year, is facing many difficulties, including the shutdown of a US factory.
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