Ohio State’s Global One Health initiative (GOHi) mobilized thousands of essential laboratory supplies to support the COVID-19 response efforts in Ethiopia, where the ability to test has been significantly low. Only about 36,000 tests in a population of 110 million have been performed since the beginning of the outbreak. With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, GOHi was able to procure and send personal protective equipment, sample preparation kits, COVID-19 diagnostic reagents, PCR reaction plates, molecular laboratory plastic supplies and specimen collection materials to Ethiopia. The supplies were sent to GOHi’s long-time partner and the country's primary National Reference Laboratory for COVID-19 testing, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute. |