Grants and Contributions:
Title:
An African Health-Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Intelligence
Agreement Number:
7449032 P011824002
Agreement Value:
$1,274,488.00
Agreement Date:
Feb 15, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
This project aims to reduce biological threats by strengthening health security capacities for disease surveillance and response, specifically focusing on integrated disease surveillance at the sub-national level, event-based surveillance, genomic surveillance, and epidemic intelligence.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
This project seeks to achieve the following results: (1)Increased commitments and investments from political and donor communities in biosecurity, epidemic intelligence and early warning systems; and (2)Improved performance in Africa to monitor for, rapidly detect and effectively respond to disease events, whether they are natural, accidental or deliberate in origin
Location:
Addis Ababa, ET
Reference Number:
064-2022-2023-Q4-00118
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
African Society Laboratory Medicine
Program:
Weapon Threat Reduction Program
Program Purpose:
The purpose of the Weapon Threat Reduction Program is to reduce the threat posed by the proliferation and use of weapons of mass
destruction and select conventional weapons