Spotlight: Morocco Health Sector Outlook Ahead of CPHIA 2024 Conference
Morocco will host Africa CDC’s flagship gathering, the Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) 2024, in Rabat from November 25 to 29, 2024. Global leaders, private sector players, health professionals, scientists, researchers, and civil society will gather to review and advance progress toward transforming Africa’s health systems. The conference aligns with the African Union’s […]
Scientists Call for Broader and Stronger Network for Genomic Surveillance of Cholera in Africa
Africa’s leading genomic researchers are urgently advocating for a coordinated approach to genomic surveillance of cholera in the continent’s most vulnerable settings. Leveraging existing local expertise, they propose establishing a broader network to enhance genomic surveillance and response capabilities for a wide range of infectious diseases across the 55 African Union (AU) member states. Cholera, […]
Africa CDC Training Sparks Interest to Make Courses Available in Universities
Africa CDC’s two years of training in Laboratory Quality Management combining human, animal and environmental health protection across the continent has led to institutions sharing resources and sparked discussion to introduce the training into university curricula. The latest Laboratory Quality Management Systems (LQMS) utilizing the One Health approach brought together 29 participants from 15 African […]
Public Health Journal Shops for African Ethos in New Authors
Who qualifies to write for the Journal of Public Health in Africa, on what subject? That could be a daunting question for an emerging researcher or even an established one. On July 3, 2024, at a meeting in Ghana dubbed “Building Our Own – Africanization of Scientific Excellence,” researchers sought to foster Africa-centric scholarship and […]
Outbreak Report, 30 July 2024: Mpox Situation in Africa
I- Current Situation Mpox in Africa: Since the beginning of 2022 and as of 28 July 2024, a total of 37,583 cases and 1,451 deaths (case fatality rate [CFR]: 3.9%) of mpox have been reported from 15 African Union Member States (AU MS): Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo […]
Africa CDC and AU ECOSOCC Reimagine Role of Technology in Health Resilience and Democracy
On July 19, 2024, Africa CDC partnered with the African Union’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (AU ECOSOCC) to facilitate discussions on the role of technology in enhancing health resilience and democracy in Africa. During the second day of the African Union ECOSOCC Citizens Forum in Accra, two-panel discussions were featured — the first focused […]
Health Experts Set to Define Africa’s Public Health Priorities in an Annual Report
Ahead of the fourth International Conference on Public Health in Africa set for Rabat, Morocco, in November, global public health experts are gathering health information that will guide stakeholders on the public health priorities of the continent. The Africa Annual Public Health Intelligence Report (PHIR) aims to reveal the burden of diseases and health risks […]
Spot Report, 24 July 2024: Landslides in Ethiopia
On 24 July 2024, the epidemic intelligence team detected (through routine media monitoring) a signal of three successive landslides in the mountainous areas of Gezei Gofa woreda, Gofa Zone, South Ethiopia region. The landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall that occurred on the night of 21 July 2024. As of 24 July 2024, over 200 […]
Africa CDC to Invest US$500,000 Towards Lesotho’s Public Health Emergency Operation Center
A senior official from Africa CDC has announced that it will support Lesotho in establishing a world-class public health emergency operation center by investing US$500,000 in state-of-the-art equipment and training for frontline health workers. Dr. Lul Pout Riek, the Regional Coordinator at Africa CDC, made this announcement while handing over high-tech vaccine cold chain equipment […]
Saving Lives and Livelihoods Second Phase Operates on US$638 Million
A budget of US$638 million will finance the second Phase of Saving Lives and Livelihood Second Phase running from August 2024 to December 2025. Africa CDC and Mastercard Foundation resumed this Phase with two joint microplanning workshops in Addis Ababa from 5-8 June and another in Kigali from 11-13 July. The third joint workshop will […]