Oct 25 2012
"Construction has begun on Ethiopia's National Public Health Training Center, the first of its kind to be established in the country at a cost of $4 million," Malaysian News Agency Bernama reports, noting, "The U.S. President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) committed to the cost of the project, while the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will manage the construction of the ground and three facilities which are expected to be completed by April 2014" (10/23). "It will be the first national training center for health, according to the press statement from the United States Embassy in Ethiopia," according to New Business Ethiopia, which adds, "The new national public health training center will be a state-of-the-art facility that will act as a training and support hub for Ethiopia's national public health monitoring, research, and laboratory network" (10/23).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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