Date: From Sep 30, 2015 to Sep 30, 2020
Country: Burkina Faso, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Ghana, Guinea, India, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, etc.
This 5 years project for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (
CDC) will focus on:
1- Detecting threats early though strengthening laboratory systems to detect, differentiate, and characterize pathogens, real-time biosurveillance and diagnostics carried out in accredited laboratories
2- Preventing avoidable epidemics by ensuring systems, policies and procedures are in place to monitor and slow antimicrobial resistance
The project intends to strength/build laboratory systems, strength the public health workforce, to build capacities to prevent, detect, respond, and control infectious disease outbreaks and mitigate other health threats.
