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Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative Launches With $100M Investment

Oct 12, 2020
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Madeleine Johnson

NEW YORK – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the African Union Commission has launched an initiative to expand genomics-based public health pathogen surveillance. The four-year public-private partnership was officially launched on Monday with $100 million in support pledged by partners that include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Illumina, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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