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

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

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 ...

Africa CDC and strategic health partners operating in Central Africa have drawn up an outline of a joint 2026-2027 roadmap to strengthen health security in the Central African region.Central Africa, ...

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 ...

Malaria is on the rise in southern Africa, with several countries - including Botswana, eSwatini, Namibia and Zimbabwe - reporting new outbreaks, underscoring the ongoing challenges in eradicating the ...

Unlike IBS, which can suffer from time lags, EBS enables near real-time detection of unusual health events, allowing public ...

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