China-headquartered Fapon, a global life science company, and Bio Farma, a state-owned pharmaceutical holding company in Indonesia specialising in vaccines, life science products, and other pharmaceuticals, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise their commitment to strengthening medical innovations in Indonesia.
Merck & Co. and Indonesia’s Bio Farma entered a licensing agreement for the state-owned drug manufacturer to produce the MSD four-valent HPV vaccine locally.
Cervical cancer is the second most frequent form of cancer among women in Indonesia. In addition to raising awareness and encouraging women to get the HPV shot, the country is now looking to manufacture Merck’s vaccine.
BANDUNG, INDONESIA, Sept 30, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - PT Bio Farma (Persero), the holding company for pharmaceutical state-owned enterprises (SOEs), will export its novel Oral Polio Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) having secured a purchase contract with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for 2022 & 23. Under the contract, Bio Farma will export its oral polio vaccines based on individual purchase requests from UNICEF via multilateral contract agreement for the years 2022 & 23.
Bio Farma said this month it would produce 20 million doses of the vaccine in 2022 and 100 million doses by 2024. It has also said it has sought a halal certificate - which would make the vaccine permissible under Islam - from relevant authorities.
Bandung, W Java, Indonesia, Sept 9, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - PT Bio Farma, the holding company for state-owned pharmaceutical companies in Indonesia, announced a new milestone in manufacturing IndoVac, a Covid-19 vaccine brand it has developed since November 2021. Honesti Baasyir, President Director of Bio Farma, said the company collaborated with Baylor College of Medicine, a private, independent health sciences centre in Houston, Texas to develop IndoVac, a recombinant protein subunit vaccine produced from yeast.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said late on Tuesday the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac could not yet be determined, after previously saying that interim data showed 97% efficacy.
BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SVA) (“Sinovac” or the “Company”), a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, today announced it has signed two agreements in Hainan, China with PT Bio Farma, a leading biopharmaceutical company in Indonesia, for the supply, local production and technology licensing in respect of the CoronaVac, Sinovac’s inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, H.E. Retno LP Marsudi and Minister of State Owned-Companies of Indonesia, H.E. Erick Thohir witnessed the signing of the two agreements.
China’s Sinovac Biotech has committed to provide up to 40 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Indonesia’s government between November and March, a minister said, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to secure its supply as cases rise unabated.