African Union establishes One Health Coordination Group on Zoonotic Diseases
To coordinate, support, monitor, and evaluate the implementation of the African Union One Health Strategy for Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Control across the Member States, the African Union Interagency Group on One Health has been established. The Interagency was established during a meeting on One Health that took place from 13-14 June 2022 at AU-IBAR […]
Africa CDC organizes first training on Real-Time PCR-based Monkeypox virus (MPXV) testing for 20 African Union Member States
Participants from 20 African Union Member States are attending a 3-day training at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja, Nigeria On 28 June 2022, the Africa CDC in partnership with Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) launched the first in a series of hands-on training on real-time […]
Press Release on Monkeypox situation in Africa
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 27 June 2022 – Since the beginning of 2022, 1,715 cases (1,636 suspected; 79 confirmed) and 73 deaths (CFR: 4.3%) of monkeypox have been reported from eight endemic and two non-endemic African Union (AU) Member States (MS). During the period of the COVID-19 pandemic (February 2020 to date), Africa has documented 12,141 […]
Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative hits one-year milestone
June 21, 2022 [Ethiopia, Addis Ababa] – A year ago, the Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC launched the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative – a now $1.5 billion partnership with four key objectives: To purchase COVID-19 vaccines for at least 65 million people To drive millions more vaccinations by enabling the delivery and administration of […]
Africa CDC conduct bioinformatics training to support genomic surveillance
The Africa CDC through its Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) has supported African countries during the past two years to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengthening genomic sequencing capability has resulted in the sequencing of nearly 100,000 SARS-COV-2 genomes. Cognizant of the scale-up of data generation capability, the Africa CDC in partnership with the South […]
Africa CDC Hosted the Member States and Stakeholders workshop to validate and launch the AFRICA CDC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES & INJURIES PREVENTION AND CONTROL AND MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGY (2022-26).
From April 25th to 28th 2022, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) organized the Member States and Stakeholders workshop to validate and launch its five years Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries and Mental Health (NCDI/MH) strategy. The workshop aimed to provide a platform for updating Member States and other stakeholders on the strategy […]
Africa CDC joins stakeholders to celebrate World No Tobacco Day under the theme ‘’Quit tobacco to save our planet”.
The tobacco epidemic kills more than 8million people around the world each year. The trend of tobacco cultivation in Africa has increased over the years, translating into increased tobacco use on the continent. An increase of 52% in cigarette consumption was observed in Africa between the years 1980 and 2016. The number of tobacco users […]
UNESCO and Africa CDC strengthening community radio journalists on health reporting
“This training workshop equipped me with relevant concepts, practices, lessons and ethics on health journalism. I am now a skilled health reporter who is already sharing my acquired knowledge and experience with my colleagues at the mountain kingdom of Lesotho”. Says Marethabile Thibeli, a community radio journalist from Lesotho. Community radio journalists from four African […]
Singapore and the African Union can digitally verify each other’s COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates from 23 May 2022
1 To facilitate the resumption of travel between Singapore and countries in Africa, Singapore and the African Union, through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have established a framework for mutual recognition of digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates. 2 With mutual recognition, from 23 May, fully vaccinated travellers with digital COVID-19 vaccination […]
Africa CDC Releases New Country Research on Scale-Up of COVID Vaccines
A newly released analysis finds that scale-up speed, a focus on at-risk populations and the choice of COVID-19 vaccine brands are critical to structuring successful programs in the African context. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention today released the results of a new 27-country analysis on the health and economic […]