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Africa CDC holds virtual meeting with African Group Permanent Representatives and Heads of African Union Missions in New York, Geneva, Brussels and Washington DC.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 15 JULY 2021. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has briefed the African group permanent representatives in the diplomatic and diaspora communities on status of acquisition and roll out of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa. The event which was held virtually brought together African Group representatives in Brussels, Geneva, New […]

Africa CDC and MTN accelerate fight against COVID-19 with “One More Push” campaign

Complementing the ‘Adapted Africa Joint Continental Strategy for COVID-19 Pandemic’ of the African Union Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8 July 2021: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and pan-African operator MTN Group today launched a joint campaign – “One More Push” – to encourage people across the continent to not give up […]

Africa CDC, African Union, WHO, The Rockefeller Foundation, Join the ‘One by One: Target Covid-19 Campaign’ to Launch ‘AfricaCovidChampions’

Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Uganda – 7th July 2021 — In order to combat the spread of misinformation and to mitigate the deadly spread of COVID-19, the One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the African Union and The Rockefeller Foundation have joined hands with celebrity influencers […]

Africa CDC ramps up training on SARS-CoV-2 genomics and bioinformatics

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 22 June 2021 – Today, the Africa CDC and ACEGID have started a continent-wide training series on SARS-CoV-2 sequencing. The comprehensive hands-on training aims to strengthen Member States capacity to track the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. 17 candidates from 12 African Union Member States are currently attending the […]

Republic of Guinea declared End of Second Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 19 June 2021. The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Guinea has declared the end of the 2nd Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak on Saturday 19 June 2021, four months after three cases were detected in Gouecke, the epicentre of the outbreak in N’Zérékoré Prefecture. This is the second outbreak in […]