21/01/2021 - 

With funding from the European Union (EU), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has procured a USD 921 000 machine that will enhance the production of thermo-tolerant Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) vaccine in Ethiopia. The vaccine filling and labeling machine has been installed at the National Veterinary Institute (NVI). The new machine could also be used for the lyoplization of other vaccine types if needed. It complements the USD 810 000 lyophilizer machine that FAO procured, also with EU funding, and handed over to the NVI in October 2018. The NVI now has the capacity to produce 50 million doses of the thermos-stable PPR vaccine per year. Both machines could also be used for the dispensing, lyophylisation and labelling of other vaccine types if needed...