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The African Union Covid-19 Response Fund: a new social contract (By Ebba Kalondo, Carl Manlan)

We need African resources for African transformation, and the fund is a significant step in that direction

The African Union recently rolled out the Partnership to Accelerate Covid-19 Testing (PACT) (https://bit.ly/2BoT9wh) building on the lessons from past outbreaks and epidemics. In early 2014, when Ebola cases were first reported in the West African nations of Guinea and Liberia, Africa was taken by surprise. The spread of the…