Africa CDC Saving Lives and Livelihoods Inititaive Commence Implementation Launch in Rwanda
August 8, 2022, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has commenced the in-country implementation of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative in the Republic of Rwanda to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination across the country. The vaccination drive is being launched at a time […]
Africa CDC Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative Commences Implementation in Namibia
August 3, 2022, Windhoek, Namibia: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has commenced the in-country implementation of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative in Namibia to accelerate the COVID-19 vaccination. The vaccination drive is coming at a time when the country only has 26% of […]
Multi-country monkeypox outbreak declared a global Public Health Emergency of International Concern
Addis Ababa, 25th July 2022 – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) welcome the Saturday 23 July 2022 declaration by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the multi-country monkeypox (MPX) outbreak to be a global public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). This following the reporting of over […]
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Receives a $100 Million Grant from the World Bank to Strengthen Continental Public Health Preparedness
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 22nd July 2022– Africa CDC has received a USD 100 million grant from the World Bank to strengthen Africa’s preparedness and response capabilities to health emergencies. The support programme will enhance Africa CDC’s technical capacity and strengthen institutional frameworks that will enable the agency to plan better, prepare effectively, and respond […]
The 14th Ebola Outbreak Declared Over in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- July 5, 2022. On 23 April 2022, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) after laboratory confirmation of a case, a 31-year-old male from Mbandaka, a city of approximately 1.2 million people in the north-western Equateur province. This was […]
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 […]