Capacity building sequencing in Africa
AFROSCREEN, an ongoing program of international support for the genomic surveillance of emerging pathogens with epidemic potential in a network of partners in 13 African countries.
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Number of training courses organized since July 2021
14
Number of operational sequencing platforms
10957
Number of sequences shared on GISAID since July 2021
The AFROSCREEN network
The AFROSCREEN project structures an African program to strengthen laboratory sequencing capacities, share data and ensure effective monitoring of the circulation of viruses.
The consortium
The AFROSCREEN program, financed by AFD as part of the Santé en Commun initiative, then by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs with FEF funding, is coordinated by a consortium comprising ANRS | Emerging Infectious Diseases (consortium leader), the Research Institute for Development (IRD), and the Institut Pasteur (IP), and implemented by/with their networks of 23 partners in 13 countries in West and Central Africa and Madagascar.
