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Gates Foundation Co-Funds $100 Million Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative
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The Gates Foundation co-funded a $100 million four-year Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (PGI) in partnership with Africa CDC, US CDC, Microsoft, Illumina, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. The initiative integrates pathogen whole-genome sequencing and bioinformatics directly into national public health surveillance systems across the African continent, enabling real-time tracking of pathogen evolution, outbreak clusters, and antimicrobial resistance patterns. COVID-19 had just revealed the continent's genomic sequencing gap — Africa was producing less than 1 percent of global SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences at the time.
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