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The United Kingdom has announced a funding plan of up to £210 million for the building of state-of-the-art laboratories, cutting-edge disease surveillance systems and a bigger global workforce to tackle deadly antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Nigeria and countries in Africa and Asia.
It says the funding would support the Fleming Fund's activities to tackle AMR in those countries over the next three years, helping to reduce the threat it poses to the UK and globally.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja.
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