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ADDIS ABABA: THE Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Ambassador Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, has proposed technical cooperation between the Africa CDC and Tanzania through the Medical ...
Document aims to drive data-driven action , reinforce nat'l health systems- The Africa CDC has released new guidance to help AU Member States improve surveillance of NCDs, injuries, and mental health ...
Africa's CDC has declared mpox a public health emergency as cases are up 160% compared to 2023. What to know about rising virus cases, spread and prevention.
Batoma, Head of Health at the ECCAS Commission, highlighted the role of interoperability and joint resource mobilization in ...
The loss of mpox vaccines may help contribute to those figures. Politico notes that African countries have reported nearly ...
New track under African Union Media Fellowship aims to promote evidence-based storytelling and health security reporting The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the ...
Africa CDC welcomes the signing of the Declaration of Principles on 19 July 2025 between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Congo River Alliance/M23. Africa CDC echoes the ...
The Africa CDC, in its latest study titled "Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use Partnership", released ...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director General, Jean Kaseya, said on Thursday that reported cases in Africa had risen by 79% from 2022-2023 and by 160% from ...
The number of mpox cases in Africa has surged 177%, and deaths have increased 38.5% compared with the same period a year ago, data from the Africa CDC showed.
According to the Associated Press (AP), while the mpox outbreaks have touched 12 of Africa's 54 countries, Congo remains the epicenter, accounting for 94 percent of the continent's cases this year ...
Africa has secured less than 10% of the estimated $245 million it needs to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, a senior official from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and ...