Nigeria: Kenya, FG Unite Against Disease Spread
The Kenya Aids Vaccination Initiative (KAVI)
has expressed its willingness to collaborate with Nigeria to tackle
diseases in Africa.
The Programme Director of KAVI, Prof. Omu Anzala, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nairobi that it had applied for grant through the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Initiative to carry out its researches.
"What we want is to be able to develop biological marker for various things that affect Africa. It is still in the process and if we get such funding then we shall initiate that collaboration," he said.
Anzala also pointed out that the initiative is an on-going global effort to apply genomic science and associated technologies to further the understanding of health and diseases among different populations. He said the institute was now collaborating with Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa and Gambia in its vaccine research works.
The Programme Director of KAVI, Prof. Omu Anzala, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nairobi that it had applied for grant through the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Initiative to carry out its researches.
"What we want is to be able to develop biological marker for various things that affect Africa. It is still in the process and if we get such funding then we shall initiate that collaboration," he said.
Anzala also pointed out that the initiative is an on-going global effort to apply genomic science and associated technologies to further the understanding of health and diseases among different populations. He said the institute was now collaborating with Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa and Gambia in its vaccine research works.
