# Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi and Science, Technology and Innovation deputy minister, Nomalungelo Gina, will today lead the launch of South Africa’s first locally manufactured vaccine in over 50 years. The historic event at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital marks the start of phase one clinical trials for Biovac’s oral cholera vaccine. Health Ministry spokesperson Foster Mohale says the trials, coordinated by the South African Medical Research Council, aim to test the vaccine’s effectiveness against cholera:
Biovac’s oral cholera vaccine enters phase 1 clinical trials [SOUND]
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