The partnership will support Nigeria’s post-marketing vaccine surveillance system by evaluating innovative screening devices and expanding routine laboratory testing for vaccine lots.
The experimental vaccine was developed by scientists at the University of Oxford using the same vaccine technology employed in the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The BD-Ebov trial, which is being conducted in Oxford, will evaluate the safety, tolerability and immune response of the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine in 50 healthy adults aged between 18 and 55 years.
The funding will support three promising vaccine candidates being developed by Moderna, the University of Oxford in partnership with the Serum Institute of India, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).