A Chinese company wins bid for the first phase of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention project (African CDC) of the African Union on Wednesday. A milestone in cooperation between China and African countries to strengthen their public health and epidemic prevention systems.

The link to the video on “Long Covid” presented last month at the International Conference on Genomics in China (ICG-17).  As a member of the advisory board,  I have been giving lectures since 2011. This year, more than 600,000 attended the conference on site and by Zoom.  I have also acknowledged my Chinese colleagues and friends who played a crucial role for China funding the building of Africa CDC in Addis at a cost of US $80 million. We succeeded in overcoming US’s effort to block Africa CDC from being built in Addis (picture attached).

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Xe4y1x7Mk?t=162.8

US warns over Chinese ‘spying’ on African disease control centre | Financial Times (Feb 6,  2020)  The Trump administration has cited concerns over Beijing’s scientific spying programme as the reason it wants to block a Chinese plan to build an $80m headquarters for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Ethiopia, amid growing competition for influence in the continent.

Tilahun Yilma, DVM, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Virology, Emeritus

Associate Fellow, Ethiopian Academy of Sciences

Member, US National Academy of Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

Department of Medical Micro/Immunology

School of Medicine

University of California Davis, CA 95616
https://zehabesha.com/icg-17-on-long-covid-headquarters-of-africa-cdc-in-addis-ababa-2/