Last week, the Pandemic Fund allocated its first set of 19 grants and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is not pleased with the outcome.
Only five African countries will benefit from this funding, representing less than 5% of the continent’s population, the Pan-African public health agency said in a press release Thursday. This includes Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Togo, and Zambia.
Africa CDC also criticized the fund for not allowing it to apply for grants independently on behalf of African nations so that it can coordinate this funding with a regional approach.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
