Press Release on Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 14 February 2023 – On 13 February 2023, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoH) of Equatorial Guinea reported a confirmed Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in the Kie Ntem province in the North Western part of the country. One confirmed case, nine deaths and 16 suspected cases have been reported […]
Africa CDC, Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the South African Medical Research Council take concrete action to ramp up Africa’s biomanufacturing workforce.
La Pointe Sarène, Senegal 07/02/2022; Over 30 partner organisations will join from 7th to 9th February to participate in the first Biomanufacturing Workforce Development workshop co-hosted by Africa CDC, IPD and SAMRC. The Africa CDC has set the ambitious goal to manufacture 60% of the vaccine doses required on the continent by 2040. Yet, Africa […]
Announcement of the Africa CDC Youth Advisory Team for Health (YAT4H)
Addis Ababa, 31 January 2023. Africa CDC hosted a successful Youth Pre Conference on 10 -11 December 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda under the Theme “Meaningful youth engagement for advancing sustainable health security in Africa”. This was in the margins of the Second International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2022). Following the robust engagement […]
PAVM, CHAI & PATH JOINT SITE VISITS WITH AFRICAN VACCINE MANUFACTURERS: Fact finding to inform technical and commercial support needed as well as near-term production output forecast
Benslimane, Morocco 17/01/2023. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has reinforced the importance of regional health security mechanisms to address global health issues in an agile and contextualized manner. In the past two and half years since the beginning of the pandemic, Africa has seen the prospects for the local production […]
African Union Commission & European Commission joint endeavour on Digital Health – Outcome of the 2022 African Health Tech Summit and 2nd CPHIA in Kigali
“The African Union and the European Union have been at the forefront of the operationalisationof digitalisation in health, as witnessed during the COVID-19 response. This included theestablishment of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC), the support to the Traceability andVerification System (TRVST) for COVID-19 vaccines, and other health products as well as theAfrican Union Trusted […]
African Leaders and Global Health Experts Convene in Rwanda
for the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa, CPHIA 2022
Conference aims to significantly advance efforts to strengthen research, innovation and emergency management in Africa. 14 December 2022, Kigali, Rwanda – The 2nd International Conference on Public Health inAfrica (CPHIA 2022), which will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, at the Kigali Convention Centre kicksoff today with African Heads of State, ministers of health, and leading […]
Africa CDC convenes public health officials and experts to prepare the continent to respond to future outbreaks
Public health officials, experts, researchers, and scientists around Africa will gather at a major conference at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week to take stock of how ready, in a post-COVID-19 world, African countries are to face up to the next disease threat. ‘Beyond COVID-19: Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics for Health […]
The Republic of Korea to Donate First Batch of Mpox Vaccine to Africa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 29th November 2022 – The government of the Republic of Korea, through Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), will donate the first batch of the Mpox vaccine to Africa through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The donation was announced during a bilateral meeting between the […]
Africa CDC Hosts Eastern Africa Member States Workshop on Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Preparedness and Response
Nairobi, Kenya | 18th November 2022: The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) together with the Ministry of Health of Kenya and partners, hosted the workshop on Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) Plans for East Africa Member States from 14 to 18 November […]
Africa CDC, in collaboration with ASLM, FIND, and CHAI, launched a Consultative Workshop on Revised COVID-19 Testing and Surveillance Strategy
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in collaboration with the Africa Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), launched a Consultative Workshop on Revised COVID-19 Testing and Surveillance Strategy: Transitioning from Emergency Response to Integration into Routine Healthcare Services. The Consultative Workshop […]