African Society Laboratory Medicine
$7,500,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Recipient country
- Ethiopia
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- February 24, 2025 – March 31, 2028
- Reference
- dfatd-maecd:064-2024-2025-Q4-A0106
Published purpose
This project aims to mitigate the longstanding and serious threats associated with “deliberate disease” emanating from Africa. These challenges that are prioritized by the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the G7, the United Nations and INTERPOL. This project aims to support Africa CDC to further develop and deliver a comprehensive Strategic Plan on Biosafety and Biosecurity. This Project, a product of the Canada-led Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa, seeks to enable a multi-year sustained push by Africa CDC to prevent, detect and respond to deliberate disease threats through continent-wide capacity building for biosecurity (i.e. protecting pathogens from illicit acquisition) and biosafety (i.e. preventing accidental release of pathogens from laboratories and protecting lab staff from infection).
In plain English AI-generated
This project supports the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in developing a strategic plan to strengthen biosafety and biosecurity across Africa, aiming to prevent, detect, and respond to deliberate biological threats.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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