February 15
Africa: African Leaders Call to Scale Up Health Workforce, Commit to Deploy Two Million Community Health Workers By 2030
African Union (AU) Ministers of Health and Finance, together with Heads of Delegation, have called for urgent and sustained investment in Africa's health workforce, including to… Read more »
November 03, 2025
Africa: Getting Youth a Space At the Table in Global Health Governance
A few students at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in March 2020 pitched the idea of the International Working Group for Health System Strengthening (IWGHSS) as… Read more »
September 22, 2025
Africa: Communiqué From Africa CDC On the Committee of Heads of State and Government Extraordinary Session On the Margins of UNGA 80
The Committee of Heads of State and Government (CHSG) of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) convened an Extraordinary Virtual Session on the margins… Read more »
September 04, 2025
Africa: Strong Public Engagement in Africa's Mpox Fight - but Gaps Persist
A year after mpox was declared a continental health threat, Africa's response has shown encouraging momentum. An interim analysis of a new study by the Africa Centres for Disease… Read more »
July 28, 2025
Southern Africa: Southern Africa Leaders Unite to Advance Bold Health Agenda for Resilience and Equity
High-level meeting results in new regional champions, commitments on climate and health financing, and renewed momentum on African Union's 2 million Community Health Worker… Read more »
July 23, 2025
Africa: Africa Sets Course to Strengthen and Harmonise Health Data Governance
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… Read more »
Africa: Africa CDC Set to Launch Groundbreaking Knowledge Management Portal
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… Read more »
July 08, 2025
Malawi: Malawi Launches Second Edition of Pathogen Genomic Surveillance Strategy and Implementation Plan
The Malawi Ministry of Health, launched its updated plan for the implementation of its Genomic Surveillance Strategy that was produced with technical support from the Africa… Read more »
