Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation approach to COVID-19 in Africa

Published on April 17, 2020

The bulk of the work has been focused since the outbreak are helping stand up Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), working with partners like the World Bank Group and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa. They’ve also assisted in scaling up local disease surveillance and testing in the past several weeks. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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