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FILE - John Nkengasong, head of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, poses for a portrait on Aug. 29, 2023, in Washington. Nkengasong spoke to The Associated Press about his experience, at a period when challenges by anti-abortion groups and House Republican have made the future of PEPFAR uncertain. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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Alarm grows in Africa as it watches India’s COVID-19 crisis

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Kenyans line up to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Brian Ingasnga)

Africa CDC urges India to lift COVID vaccine export limits

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An AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is administered at the Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre Malawi, Monday, March 29, 2021. Malawi is vaccinating health care workers, elderly and those with health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe COVID-19, using the AstraZeneca doses that arrived early in March. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Africa CDC says India vaccine woes could be ‘catastrophic’

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In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, a health worker disinfects family members during a burial of a person who died from COVID-19, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and medical oxygen often runs desperately short. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Africa reaches 100,000 known COVID-19 deaths as danger grows

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A baby is dressed in a Santa hat at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell) ** FILE **

Africa CDC: New virus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria

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Volunteer Thabisle Khlatshwayo, who received her first shot for a COVID-19 vaccine trial, receives her second shot at a vaccine trial facility set at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday Nov. 30, 2020. Over 2000 South African volunteers are on AstraZeneca's experimental coronavirus vaccine trial. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Official: Africa needs COVID-19 vaccine for 60% in 2-3 years

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A medical worker attends to a coronavirus patient in the intensive care unit of an isolation and treatment center for those with COVID-19 in Machakos, south of the capital Nairobi, in Kenya Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. As Africa is poised to surpass 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases it is Kenya's turn to worry the continent with a second surge in infections well under way. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

African continent hits 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases

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$John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, poses for a portrait at the organization's headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has fractured global relationships, but as Africa's top public health official, Nkengasong has helped to steer the continent's 54 countries into an alliance that has won praise as responding better than some richer nations. (Mulugeta Ayene via AP)$

As US struggles, Africa’s COVID-19 response is praised

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South African National Defence Forces, walks on the street of a densely populated Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, April 16, 2020. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the lockdown by an extra two weeks in a continuing effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Africa to roll out more than 1 million coronavirus tests

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In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020, photo, a municipal worker sprays disinfectant in a mosque to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus in Dakar, Senegal. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Africa faces an ‘existential threat’ as virus cases spread

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