--- title: WHO: Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Could Be Ready Next Year description: Pharmaceutical companies are committed to making millions of doses of Ebola vaccines available next year, the WHO announced Friday. canonical: https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-24T14:08:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:59:48.122Z article:section: Health og:title: WHO: Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Could Be Ready Next Year og:description: Pharmaceutical companies are committed to making millions of doses of Ebola vaccines available next year, the WHO announced Friday. og:url: https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04d665429141e35d/6987629ce53aba37274d53cd/4567955361.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops Arrive og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WHO: Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Could Be Ready Next Year twitter:description: Pharmaceutical companies are committed to making millions of doses of Ebola vaccines available next year, the WHO announced Friday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04d665429141e35d/6987629ce53aba37274d53cd/4567955361.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WHO: Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Could Be Ready Next Year ## Video: Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola [Watch (HLS stream): Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/G194AmTC.m3u8) (2:32)  _Published 2014-08-13. Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola_ by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Oct 24, 2014 2:08 PM CUT  U.S. Navy microbiologist Lt. Jimmy Regeimbal handles a vaccine box with blood samples while testing for Ebola at the U.S. Navy mobile laboratory on October 5, 2014 near Gbarnga, Liberia. U.S. Navy microbiologist Lt. Jimmy Regeimbal handles a vaccine box with blood samples while testing for Ebola at the U.S. Navy mobile laboratory on October 5, 2014 near Gbarnga, Liberia.John Moore—Getty Images by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Oct 24, 2014 2:08 PM CUT Pharmaceutical companies are committed to making millions of doses of Ebola vaccines available next year, the World Health Organization announced Friday. The United Nations organization said that two vaccines are currently ready for clinical trials and five more experimental vaccines are expected to undergo testing in the first four months of 2015. The remarks were made by WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Systems and Innovation Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny and publicized on the WHO’s [Twitter account](https://twitter.com/WHO "undefined"). Kieny cautioned that the the vaccines might be “proven not usable” but it’s still “prudent” to prepare a large amount, according to the Twitter account. Over 4,800 people have died from Ebola this year. If early testing goes well, more advanced trials of the potential Ebola vaccines could take place in the West African countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak as soon as December. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/"},"headline":"WHO: Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Could Be Ready Next Year","datePublished":"2014-10-24T14:08:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:59:48.122Z","description":"Five new experimental vaccines are expected to undergo testing","url":"https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/","keywords":["ebola","World Health Organization","vaccine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04d665429141e35d/6987629ce53aba37274d53cd/4567955361.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04d665429141e35d/6987629ce53aba37274d53cd/4567955361.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops Arrive","caption":"Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops Arrive","creditText":"John Moore—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/","name":"WHO: Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Could Be Ready Next Year"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola","description":"Meet The CDC Doctors Fighting Ebola","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/G194AmTC/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-13T23:41:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/G194AmTC.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/","duration":"PT2M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```