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