Tag: Africa CDC

The centre warned of a potential regional health threat if swift containment measures are not implemented

The strategy comes amid projections that external health aid will plummet by 70 per cent in 2025, prompting urgent action ...

He described the situation as a “total disaster” for the continent’s health sector

Mr Kaseya highlighted the impact of a recent 90-day pause on US foreign assistance, compounding ongoing challenges in DRC, where ...

Mr Kaseya disclosed that Sierra Leone had reported its first two cases of Mpox, intensifying concerns over the virus’s spread ...

This public health organisation also reported 461 new confirmed infections and 34 deaths with a cases fatality rate of 7.4 ...

The Africa CDC said the selection was based on country readiness and epidemiological data.

The report noted that cumulatively, there is over a 194 per cent increase in cases recorded this year when compared ...

Nigeria has recorded no fatalities from Mpox in 2024, compared to 2022 and 2023 with two and seven deaths reported ...

The Continental Response Plan will combine the response plans developed by the 13 countries that have recorded suspected and confirmed ...

WHO says that to combat the outbreak, strategic vaccination efforts will target high-risk individuals.

While Nigeria recorded 24 cases with no deaths, the DRC topped with 13,791 cases and 450 deaths.

Recently, the Africa CDC, in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation under the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative made its biggest ...

Africa-CDC boss said if only one African country is ready to respond to a public health emergency, all countries in ...

The partnership, the organisations said, will expand its scope and scale, focusing on completing the vaccination of healthcare workers and ...

According to WHO, Africa has fewer than ten vaccine manufacturing facilities in five countries: Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and ...

She was the physician who discovered that a Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who arrived in Nigeria through the Lagos airport, was ...

Implementation begins as Federal Government launches SCALE 3.0 mass vaccination campaign

"COVID-19 vaccine acceptance is important to achieving herd immunity and safeguarding citizens in Africa and globally against the virus and ...

The Mastercard Foundation has promised to fund the purchase of 57 million doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccines, and approximately ...

The emergence of the variant, first detected in South Africa, prompted some countries to impose travel restrictions on at least ...

"Public health laboratories and researchers should closely monitor the rate of S gene dropout results."

“The African continent as a whole faces what we call a syndemics; a combination of emerging infectious diseases. We are ...

The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic stood at 115,191 while 3,888,495 patients across the continent have recovered from the ...

About 55,669 people infected with COVID-19 have died from the disease across the continent so far.