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PRESS RELEASE – African and Global Philanthropists Team-up to Manufacture COVID-19 Medical Equipment in Africa

African and global philanthropists have teamed up to help African nations secure urgently needed ventilators, breathing support devices and other medical equipment, in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Strive Masiyiwa, co-founder of Higherlife Foundation,...

FINANCIAL TIMES – African nations join forces to procure medical equipment

African countries are developing a platform to pool orders to break into the global diagnostics and medical equipment market they have largely been shut out of during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and...

THE GUARDIAN – Experts sound alarm over lack of Covid-19 test kits in Africa

Public health experts have warned about the risks of low supplies of coronavirus test kits as lockdowns in African countries begin to ease and urban populations become more mobile. Different countries on the continent have adopted a range of testing strategies, but...