What if early signals of a public health threat could be captured & assessed in real time - directly from the community?

@ecdc.europa.eu together with #AfricaCDC & Health Information Systems Program - South Africa, is piloting a mobile application for event-based surveillance.

Info bit.ly/4tDqloR

Nod for Youth’s YES! Health Strategy African youth are often excluded from health services, governance and […]

Nod for Youth’s #YES!Health Strategy - #AfricaCDCYouth Program.
“Africa’s strength lies in its #youth. The Strategy formalises the role of youth as essential partners in achieving health security and universal health coverage across our continent,” #AfricaCDC
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Fund Africa CDC from within—and hold it accountable: A call from a firm believer in its promise. Holding Africa CDC to high standards is not criticism—it is belief in its future. By Luchuo Engelbert Bain Engelbert Bain, MD, PhD, FAAS.

In this article, Dr Luchuo Engelbert Bain makes the case for funding Africa CDC from within and holding it accountable. A must-read framework for the next chapter of African health governance.
🔗 Link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/fund-a...
#AfricaCDC #HealthSovereignty #GlobalHealthOtherwise

Are you researching #malaria in pregnancy? Use the malaria in pregnancy library, an online resource to search published and unpublished literature www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
@lstmnews.bsky.social @afro.who.int #AfricaCDC

🌍💉 African graduates!
Apply for the Africa CDC Industrial Fellowship 2026
🧪 Vaccine manufacturing training
✈️ Fully funded
📍 Egypt, Senegal, South Africa
📅 April 30, 2026
🔗 wp.me/p23f03-kdg
💡 Tip: Showcase your technical & biotech skills!
#Fellowship #AfricaCDC

In collaboration with partners like #AfricaCDC, @cepi.net, & @ibbis-bio.bsky.social, this initiative aims to build a sustainable pipeline of experts to lead biological threat reduction efforts across the continent.

🌍 Africa CDC’s new Health Security and Sovereignty Agenda aims for Africa to produce 60% of its own vaccines, diagnostics and treatments by 2040—shifting from aid dependence to African‑led preparedness and manufacturing.

#AfricaCDC #HealthSovereignty #GlobalHealth

In the @rani.co Playbook: Navigating Crises 🚣🏽‍♀️ Building climate and health #resilience @ranafrica.org 🌍 Make or break moment #PABS ⏰ Smart defence #MFF 🛡️ First MOU for #AfricaCDC @ecdc.europa.eu 🫱🏾‍🫲🏽 New reads 📚 and listens 🎧 & more!

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ECDC Director Pamela Rendi-Wagner is in Addis Ababa this week, where ECDC and Africa CDC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise their long-standing partnership on public health cooperation.

www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

#AfricaCDC #PublicHealth #ECDC #IDsky #EpiSky

Africa CDC Kofi Annan Scholars Program 2026: Strategy Development Expert (AVoHC) – Apply by 2 April - Opportunities for Youth Public health professionals across Africa and the African diaspora can now apply for the Africa CDC Kofi Annan Scholars Program – Strategy Development Expert

🌍 African public health professionals can apply for the Africa CDC Kofi Annan Scholars Program 2026 (AVoHC) — 20 expert positions available.
🔗 wp.me/p23f03-jNx
📅 Deadline: 2 April 2026

#AfricaCDC #KofiAnnanScholars #PublicHealthJobs #GlobalHealth #AfricanOpportunities

#cholera cases in Africa continue to increase this year with The DRC & Mozambique accounting for nearly 89% of cases.

Leaders at #AfricaCDC call for development of a vaccine made in Africa to curb infection.

Catch this update and more in our weekly #TrackingReport!

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Africa CDC's bold communiqué from Addis (Feb '26): Country ownership + sovereignty at the heart of reformed global health! #UHC/#PHC foundation, empowered regions (Africa/PAHO/ECDC), fair burden-sharing. South-led reform momentum!
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#GlobalHealthReform #AfricaCDC

This year, we look forward to the full implementation of the #AfricaCDC Youth Strategy for Engagement & Participation in Global Health 2025-2028.

But Why a Strategy for Youth Engagement?

Read more about the Strategy: youth.africacdc.org/yeshealth-st...
#YESHealth #YouthLeadershipInHealth

Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management Fellowship 2026 (Cohort III) – Africa CDC-Funded Training for African Public Health Professionals - Opportunities for Youth African public health professionals can now apply for the Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Fellowship 2026 – Cohort III, a prestigious

African public health professionals can apply for the #AfricaCDC Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) #Fellowship 2026, a 6-month funded training in emergency preparedness & outbreak response — apply by 31 March 2026: wp.me/p23f03-i8E

#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth

Researching #malaria in pregnancy? Check out the malaria in pregnancy library, an online resource to search published and unpublished literature www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
@lstmnews.bsky.social @afro.who.int #AfricaCDC

#MARCADPlus MSc fellow Adul Cande attended an in-person training on BSL-3/BSL-2+ laboratory operations and molecular diagnostics, organized by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
#Malaria #GlobalHealth #AfricaCDC

African Leaders Call to Scale Up Health Workforce, Commit to Deploy Two Million Community Health Workers by 2030 – Africa CDC Addis Ababa, 14 February 2026 – 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, inc...

The outcome is a Call by African Leaders to Scale Up Health Workforce, Commit to Deploy Two Million Community Health Workers by 2030 – #AfricaCDC #AfricanUnion

More: africacdc.org/news-item/af...

.@ecdc.europa.eu in collaboration with #AfricaCDC and #WHOAFRO, is supporting a five-day training in R programming and epidemic intelligence for surveillance experts from Sierra Leone’s National Public Health Agency.

#InternationalCollaboration #PublicHealth #R #EpidemicIntelligence

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled $1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

It's great to see #AfricaCDC take a lead on this. This study - in its currently unethical form - cannot continue

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🌍 Opportunity for Health Professionals!

Apply for Africa CDC’s Mental Health Leadership & Advocacy Course
📍 Univ. of Zimbabwe, Harare
🗓 2–13 March 2026
🎓 Scholarships available
⏳ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026

#AfricaCDC #MentalHealth #GlobalHealth #Leadership #PublicHealth #MHLP2026

Vaccine inequity: a threat to Africa’s recovery from COVID-19 - Tropical Medicine and Health Background Vaccine inequity is a reality facing the Sub-Saharan Africa region as vaccine nationalism from high-income countries (HICs) leads to limited access to the lifesaving vaccines needed to end ...

It wasn't just about getting the vials; it was about getting them into arms. We reviewed the systemic barriers from hoarding to hesitancy that threatened the continent's recovery from COVID-19.

doi.org/10.1186/s41182-023-00564-2

#WeiPublications #GlobalHealth #COVID19 #MedSky #AfricaCDC #FOAMed

The Democratic Republic of Congo accounts for 12% of global malaria cases. Despite years of interventions, vulnerable groups remain at high risk.

doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000004085

#WeiPublications #GlobalHealth #Malaria #PublicHealth #MedSky #Epidemiology #AfricaCDC #EndMalaria #FOAMed

🎓 Africa CDC Mental Health Leadership & Advocacy Course 2026 (Scholarships available) — apply by 31 Jan 2026 for the 2–13 Mar 2026 programme in Harare: wp.me/p23f03-dlR

#AfricaCDC #MentalHealthAfrica #PublicHealthAfrica

Calling Africa’s next generation of global health leaders!
Applications are open for Cohort 6 of the Kofi Annan Fellowship in Global Health Leadership.

📅 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026
🚀 Starts: June 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4rMd90R

#KofiAnnanFellowship #AfricaCDC #GlobalHealth #Leadership #ApplyN

Enhancing Continental Strength Through Africa CDC Framework Explore how the Africa CDC Framework strengthens continental health systems, boosts collaboration, improves response to emerging health threats across Africa.

Enhancing Continental Strength Through the Africa CDC Framework

read more : bi-journal.com/continental-...

#AfricaCDC #ContinentalStrength #BIJournal #BIJournalnews #BusinessInsightsarticles #BIJournalinterview

Africa CDC, Zipline MoU strengthens health logistics across Africa The partnership between Africa CDC and Zipline aims to improve last-mile delivery, disease surveillance, and emergency response in Africa.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ( #AfricaCDC) and #Zipline International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen health system responsiveness, epidemic preparedness and access to essential medical supplies across Africa through drone-enabled health logistics.

Africa CDC, Zipline sign MoU to boost epidemic preparedness in Africa The partnership aims to expand last-mile access to medical supplies and strengthen data-driven health response systems across Africa.

The partnership aims to expand last-mile access to medical supplies and strengthen data-driven health response systems across Africa.

#AfricaCDC #Zipline #epidemicpreparedness #dronedelivery

Global Virus Network outlines priorities as Marburg virus emerges in Ethiopia The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of leading human and animal virologists in more than 40 countries dedicated to advancing pandemic preparedness through research, education and training, and global health solutions, today issued a statement on the newly confirmed outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in southern Ethiopia.

News Medical highlights the GVN’s priorities following Ethiopia’s first confirmed Marburg virus outbreak, including urgent needs in diagnostics, surveillance, vaccine research, ecological studies, and modelling.

Full article: https://ow.ly/Voq050XAlr5

#GVN #Marburg #AfricaCDC

Honoured to welcome #AfricaCDC West Africa RCC Regional Director, Dr Alinon Kokou to #MRCG. Discussions centred on:

✅Collaborations
✅Strengthening #ClinicalResearch capacity
✅Enhancing regional #EpidemicPreparedness & response to build a more resilient African research ecosystem.

#Partnerships

Ethiopia Confirms Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak as East Africa Races to Contain Threat Ethiopia confirms a deadly Marburg virus outbreak with nine cases as Africa CDC and WHO launch urgent containment efforts.

Ethiopia Confirms Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak as East Africa Races to Contain Threat

#MarburgVirus #Ethiopia #HealthAlert #AfricaCDC #GlobalHealth

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