Africa CDC Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Health as a development issue affects the economic, social and security concerns of countries and regions when infection or epidemics occur as witnessed during Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014/2015. The African Continent currently faces the triple burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and injury and trauma. Challenges resulting from outbreaks such as Yellow fever, Cholera, natural disasters as a result of climate change and conflict still affect the continent adversely and continue to pose threats.