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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Efforts to strategically leverage health diplomacy to foster cooperation, strengthen partnerships, and promote stability across nations gained momentum when Africa CDC's Eastern Africa Regional ...

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 ...

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.

Clade IIB is sexually transmissible and is driving the outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.Thus, timely and comprehensive knowledge is proving to be essential in ...