June 28, 2022
Africa: Africa CDC Organizes First Training On Real-Time PCR-Based Monkeypox Virus (Mpxv) Testing for 20 African Union Member States
Participants from 20 African Union Member States are attending a 3-day training at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja, Nigeria Read more »
June 27, 2022
Africa: Monkeypox - Countries Need to Remain Vigilant, Says Africa CDC
Since the beginning of 2022, 1,715 cases (1,636 suspected; 79 confirmed) and 73 deaths (CFR: 4.3%) of monkeypox have been reported from eight endemic and two non-endemic African… Read more »
June 01, 2022
Africa: Africa CDC Conduct Bioinformatics Training to Support Genomic Surveillance
The Africa CDC through its Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) has supported African countries during the past two years to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengthening… Read more »
May 31, 2022
Africa: Africa CDC Joins Stakeholders to Celebrate World No Tobacco Day
The tobacco epidemic kills more than 8million people around the world each year. The trend of tobacco cultivation in Africa has increased over the years, translating into increased… Read more »
Africa: Africa CDC Hosted the Member States and Stakeholders Workshop to Validate and Launch the Africa CDC Non-Communicable Diseases & Injuries Prevention and Control and Mental Health Promotion Strategy (2022-26).
From April 25th to 28th 2022, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) organized the Member States and Stakeholders workshop to validate and launch its… Read more »
May 22, 2022
Africa: Unesco and Africa CDC Strengthening Community Radio Journalists On Health Reporting
"This training workshop equipped me with relevant concepts, practices, lessons and ethics on health journalism. I am now a skilled health reporter who is already sharing my… Read more »
May 17, 2022
Africa: West African High Level Vaccines Manufacturers Meeting
Recognizing: the decision of the 57th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Governments held on the 7th of September 2020 in Niamey, Niger to constitute… Read more »