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Re:Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success by evanrich on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:53PM (#27702129)
Does the FDA have to approve it for American NGOs to distribute it internationally? Definitely would make more of a difference to African and India
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Re:Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success by pkaye on Thursday July 01, 2021 @04:07PM (#27704033)
No it only requires the approval of the destination country. But in the case of Ebola, some of those countries didn't have an established infrastructure to run trials so the WHO initially hesitated. But in the end they got Merck to run the trials and FDA and EMA to evaluate the results.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/07/inside-story-scientists-...

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Re:Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success by Vecr on Thursday July 01, 2021 @02:43PM (#27702826)
I don't think so, especially if it's nominally part of a trial. US Ebola drugs and vaccines were used in Africa before approval.
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