By Jackson Mapapayi The Mastercard Foundation will donate US$1.3 billion in partnership with the African Union and the Africa Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and prevention vaccinate millions of Africans for the next three years.The initiative is called ‘Saving lives and livelihoods ‘ and is aimed at acquiring Covid19 Vaccines for at least 50 million people.This came to light during the Covid-19 Vaccines Town Hall Sensitisation roundtable chat with the media organised by the African Union-Economic, Social and Cultural Council ( AU-ECOSOCC ) in Solwezi.ECOSOCC head of secretariat William Carew disclosed that the focus areas will be vaccines procurement and logistics, vaccination center set up and staff training, community engagement and risk communication among others.Mr Carew said other focus areas are surveillance, digital tool assistance and technical assistant to national vaccination programs and management.He called for strengthened partnership and collaboration among all actors including the media in order to achieve positive results in the fight against […]
MASTERCARD FOUNDATION TO DONATE US$1.3BN TO AFRICA CDC
