Gavi approved nearly $180 million for vaccine factories across Africa. The brand-new funding helps African countries start making produce their own vaccines. A two-day meeting confirmed the plan. The main push aims to reduce dependence on imported shots. Recent numbers show that strict vaccine rules lowered child vaccination rates in certain places. Gavi must now handle support for local production while keeping immunization numbers up. Local factories may slightly slow the goal of reaching about 500 million more children by the year 2025.