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Africa CDC – Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, September 2022

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Africa CDC – Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, September 2022

COVID-19 in Africa: Where we are today

In June 2021, the Mastercard Foundation partnered with the Africa CDC to launch the $1.5billion Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative. Together, we are purchasing COVID-19 vaccines for more than 65 million people, deploying vaccines to millions more across the continent, enabling vaccine manufacturing in Africa by developing the workforce, and strengthening the Africa CDC's capacity.

Countries that have surpassed the 70% vaccination target include: Seychelles at 82%, while Mauritius and Rwanda are both at 77%. Countries that have attained
vaccination between 40% and 70% include: Botswana, Cape Verde, Comoros, Liberia, Morocco, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, and Tunisia. Meanwhile,
about 21.7% percent of the continent's population is fully vaccinated at the moment.

Africa has registered over 12 million COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia are
among countries on the continent that have recorded the highest number of cases. Read more

Shots in arms: Updates on Saving Lives and Livelihoods

Saving Lives and Livelihoods Implementation In country Launch in DRC. Africa CDC, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, commenced the implementation phase of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods program on September 22 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to increase the COVID 19 vaccination uptake. The implementation comes at a time when only 3,113,660 people, or 5.77% of the adult population, have been fully vaccinated in the country. The DRC Ministry of Health and Africa CDC, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, intend to establish 15 new COVID 19 vaccination centres, 11 in Kinshasa and 4 in Lualaba, and vaccinate about 5,600,000 people. Watch here

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched its Southern Africa Regional Collaborating Centre (SA-RCC) on 31st March 2021, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at Mulungushi Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The lunch was organised by the Southern Africa RCC in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Republic of Zambia under the auspices of Dr. Kennedy Malama, Permanent Secretary of the MOH of the Republic of Zambia, and Chair of the organizing committee.

The overall objective of the launch was to highlight the technical support and planned initiatives for the Southern Africa Region that include Health Security, information sharing, policy dialogue, regional collaboration and partnership, and challenges affecting the Member States, as well as coordination across borders in the context of COVID-19 and beyond.

The launch was well attended, and officially declared open by Her Excellency, Mrs. Inonge Mutukwa Wina, the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia, and supported by His Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, represented by Mrs. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, the Commissioner for Rural Economy & Agriculture. Other participants in attendance include Hon. Dr. Jonas Chanda, MP, Minister of Health of the Republic of Zambia; Ministers from the Southern Africa Region; Her Excellency, Amira Elfadil Mohammed Elfadil, Acting Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, – and over 6,000 persons who attended the launch, majority of them virtually via Africa CDC Twitter Handle and Facebook page. Also in attendance were representatives from WHO, UNICEF, US-CDC, AU-SARO, RECs and SADC, Public Health England, World Bank, COMESA, AMERA, and EFENET in Zambia (See ANNEX 3).

The meeting concluded by requesting the Southern Africa RCC to present the findings of the Role of Regional public health institutions in improving disease surveillance and response in the region; introduce the framework of the Regional Integrated Surveillance and Laboratory Networks (RISLNET); organize a high-level regional meeting to improve cross border surveillance in the context of health security; organize a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting, and encourage African Union Member States that don’t have National Public Health Institute to establish one (See the table on agreed action points in No. 9 below)

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