The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation's Institute of Immunobiological Technology is now able to fulfill vaccine orders from both the Health Ministry and the UN, among others.
By joining a United Nations network, the Brazilian lab will supply vaccines to other countries, especially in Latin America, during epidemics or pandemics.
An inter-institutional, national and international collaboration network of the governmental, non-governmental and private sectors will seek to improve the Brazilian vaccine coverage.
The process of producing the API is strictly controlled, encompassing 81 tests in all. The longest is said to last 56 days.