Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has revealed how strikingly unprepared the world is for a pandemic and how easily viruses spread in our interconnected world. COVID-19 testing and response strategies Having navigated Ebola, HIV, and tuberculosis epidemics, and a range of annual, sporadic, and concurrent outbreaks, several African countries have unparalleled disease response capacity. 9, 2015, e0003706 12 Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC leads continental response to COVID-19 outbreak in Africa: statement by the Director of Africa CDC. https://africacdc.org/news/africa-cdc-leads-continental-response-to-covid-19-outbreak-in-africa-statement-by-the-director-of-africa-cdc/ 2020, 13 SO Wiah, M Subah, B Varpilah, Prevent, detect, respond: how community health workers can help in the fight against covid-19. Https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries 2020, 20 WHO Global leaders unite to ensure everyone everywhere can access new vaccines, tests and treatments for COVID-19.2020. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2020-global-leaders-unite-to-ensure-everyone-everywhere-can-access-new-vaccines-tests-and-treatments-for-covid-19 21 G Yamey, M Schäferhoff, R Hatchett, M Pate, F Zhao, KK McDade, Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines. [Extracted from the article]

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