New track under African Union Media Fellowship aims to promote evidence-based storytelling and health security reportingADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA | 23 July 2025 -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control ...

Batoma, Head of Health at the ECCAS Commission, highlighted the role of interoperability and joint resource mobilization in ...

A new initiative, soon to be launched by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), is set to ...

The Incident Management Support Team model that has guided the mpox response will be leveraged to coordinate and accelerate ...

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 Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) is set to kick off action towards strengthening and harmonising the framework of policies, procedures, and practices that ensure healthcare data is ...

The loss of mpox vaccines may help contribute to those figures. Politico notes that African countries have reported nearly ...

A new report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has flagged Nigeria and 13 other African countries for rising rates of drug-resistant ...

Three Southern African countries now have Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) Guidelines--a critical tool for detecting and responding to emerging health risks. Event-based surveillance systems collect and ...

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.

A year on, the ongoing mpox outbreak now affects 26 countries across Africa, up from seven initially. Containing the outbreak remains a challenge, complicated by the disease's four clades and several ...