Also known as: Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention — continental public health agency coordinating disease surveillance, emergency response, and health security across African Union member states.
Ghana has begun a two-day annual meeting of the Regional Technical Advisory Committee (ReTAC) of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the Western Africa Regional Coordinating Centre (RCC), with a focus on strengthening regional health security, p …
… eeds to pay much more attention.” Less than three months since the outbreak began, the disease has killed five times as many people as previous outbreaks had by the same stage, according to Africa’s top public health agency, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention …
… The recommendations followed a joint Parliamentary Oversight Mission undertaken by PAP’s Committee on Health, Labour and Social Affairs and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Regional Office in Lusaka, Zambia, in December 2025. …
… It further encouraged member states, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), research institutions and development partners to promote scientific research, innovation and local production of validated traditional medicines. …
… Drawing on findings from a joint parliamentary oversight mission to Zambia conducted with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the Parliament said integrated, community-centred and culturally responsive approaches offer important opportunities to st …
… The Parliament also recognised the role of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in supporting countries to prevent and control diseases across the continent. …
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) is pushing for a stronger role for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in coordinating Africa’s response to public health threats. …
… The Pan-African Parliament is urging countries to domesticate Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) frameworks into national laws, particularly in areas including biosafety and biosecurity, public health institutions, emergency preparedness, data governan …
The Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr Jean Kaseya, has called on African countries and institutions to double their effort in mobilising funds to fight the deadly Ebola currently claiming several lives in the Democratic Rep …
… The Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr Jean Kaseya, in his presentation, called for stronger African leadership in health security. …
Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London warned that Africa faces a growing gap in artificial intelligence capability, with AI concentrated in a small number of countries and the continent having far less data-centre capacity than Europe, the United States, and China. Ferguson said Africa's limited data-centre capacity is an important issue as AI becomes increasingly relevant to healthcare, scientific research, and biosecurity, though he stressed biological threats facing Africa are not fundamentally different from those elsewhere.
Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London warned that Africa faces a growing gap in artificial intelligence capability, with AI concentrated in a small number of countries and the continent having far less data-centre capacity than Europe, the United States, and China. Ferguson said Africa's limited data-centre capacity is an important issue as AI becomes increasingly relevant to healthcare, scientific research, and biosecurity, though he stressed biological threats facing Africa are not fundamentally different from those elsewhere.
A delegation from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is in Ghana for a three-day visit to assess progress in viral hepatitis control and identify areas of support towards disease elimination. The team, led by the Head of Infectious Diseases at Africa CDC, commended Ghana's response to viral hepatitis and discussed strengthening diagnostic capacity and building capability in addressing the disease.
Africa's top public health agency says the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak is still serious, with data showing gaps in infection prevention and control, contradicting the Congo Health Minister's assertion of "encouraging signs" since mid-August. The Africa CDC says transmission is not yet consistently controlled across all affected areas and cannot confirm the peak has been reached.
Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding on August 21, 2026, to participate in the African Pooled Procurement Mechanism, giving Ghanaian pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers access to a larger continental market and creating more predictable demand for locally manufactured health products.
Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to join the African Pooled Procurement Mechanism, granting Ghanaian vaccine and pharmaceutical manufacturers access to a market of about 1.4 billion people across all 55 African Union member states.
Uganda has declared the end of its Ebola outbreak after completing 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case, with the announcement welcomed by the Africa CDC and WHO. The country reported 20 confirmed cases of Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus, with 15 imported from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and five acquired locally.
The Ghana Health Service has launched a new Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) framework to strengthen Ghana's preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and public health emergencies. The framework brings together institutions, information, expertise, and resources to enable coordinated response, and includes five strategic and operational documents designed to support implementation of International Health Regulations 2005.
Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh called for deeper health cooperation among African countries to detect and contain disease outbreaks before they spread across borders, citing current Ebola spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He emphasized the need for improved information and technology sharing, increased local pharmaceutical investment, and inter-country solidarity.
Ghana has stepped up surveillance at points of entry and health facilities amid a surge in Ebola cases and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said the country has activated its surveillance systems and is working with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research to strengthen testing and response capacity.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has invited Frank Annoh-Dompreh, Ghana's Minority Chief Whip and Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP, to serve on a new Continental Immunisation Advisory Council that will provide strategic guidance on immunisation across the continent and support implementation of the Continental Immunisation Strategy 2026–2030.
Ghana is hosting a two-day annual meeting of the Regional Technical Advisory Committee of the Africa CDC and Western Africa Regional Coordinating Centre to strengthen regional health security, disease surveillance, and emergency preparedness across West Africa. The Health Minister highlighted lessons from COVID-19 and Ebola outbreaks, and emerging threats such as mpox and Marburg, as reasons for strengthening cross-border collaboration and surveillance systems.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has risen to 3,532 cases and 1,556 deaths, making it the world's second-largest on record, outpaced only by the 2014–2016 West African outbreak. The Bundibugyo strain has spread faster than any previous Ebola epidemic, killing five times as many people in the same timeframe, while insecurity and resource constraints hamper containment efforts.
The Pan-African Parliament has adopted resolutions championed by Frank Annoh-Dompreh calling for African governments to establish legal and regulatory frameworks for traditional medicine integration into national healthcare systems, including development of a continental 'Model Law on Traditional Medicine and the Protection of Local Knowledge' to guide research, licensing, quality assurance and ethical use of indigenous medicines.
The Pan-African Parliament's Committee on Health, Labour and Social Affairs has adopted a resolution to develop a continent-wide Model Law on Traditional Medicines and the Protection of Local Knowledge, aimed at strengthening the regulation, recognition and integration of traditional medicine into Africa's health systems.
The Pan-African Parliament has adopted a resolution to integrate traditional medicine into African national health systems and develop a continent-wide legal framework to regulate it, aiming to reduce preventable maternal and newborn deaths while protecting indigenous knowledge.
The Pan-African Parliament adopted a resolution challenging African governments to honour the Abuja Declaration of 2001, which requires allocating at least 15% of annual national budgets to health. The Parliament warned that weak funding continues to expose the continent to public health threats and called on member states to establish contingency funds and strengthen legal frameworks for health emergency response.
The Pan-African Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for a stronger role for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in coordinating continental health emergencies and urging African Union member states to integrate Africa CDC frameworks into national laws. The move follows repeated health crises including HIV, Ebola, COVID-19, mpox, Marburg and cholera outbreaks that exposed weaknesses in health systems.
The Pan-African Parliament has called on African Union member states to adopt continental health frameworks into national law to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response, citing gaps in health systems and legal structures exposed by HIV, Ebola, COVID-19, mpox, Marburg and cholera outbreaks.
The Director-General of Africa CDC called on African countries to mobilise more domestic funds to combat Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, noting that African countries have so far mobilised approximately US$110 million to support responses to Ebola and other disease outbreaks.
A two-day African Union Extraordinary Session on Health opened in Accra, calling on African countries to strengthen health systems, increase domestic health financing, and accelerate universal health coverage efforts. The summit aims to end AIDS by 2030, reduce preventable maternal deaths, and tackle communicable and non-communicable diseases across the continent.
The Director-General of Africa CDC said Africa will struggle to contain the ongoing Ebola outbreak without an additional $1.4 billion to strengthen the continent's response, citing high community transmission with more than 60 percent of Ebola deaths occurring within communities.
Ugandan health authorities have confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, detected in a 1-1/2-year-old child who died in Kyegegwa district. No contacts of the case have developed symptoms, and there is currently no active case in Uganda, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The World Health Organisation announced a $518 million, six-month plan to combat an Ebola outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The outbreak, involving the Bundibugyo strain for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment, has recorded 381 confirmed cases and 62 deaths in Congo, and 19 cases and two deaths in Uganda.
A pre-World Cup friendly between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chile scheduled for June 9 in southern Spain has been cancelled by the mayor of La Línea de la Concepción due to public health concerns over an active Ebola outbreak in the central African nation.
The World Health Organisation said Wednesday that the world is "catching up" with the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there have been 344 confirmed cases and 60 confirmed deaths. The outbreak, linked to the Bundibugyo strain, has spread to neighbouring Uganda with 15 confirmed cases including one death.
Attacks on Ebola health centres are intensifying in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with residents storming facilities and setting tents on fire as the WHO warns the outbreak could worsen in the DRC and Uganda. Health workers face community resistance over strict burial protocols required to prevent virus transmission.
India and the African Union postponed the Fourth India–Africa Forum Summit, originally scheduled for May 28–31, 2026 in New Delhi, following consultations about emerging public health concerns in parts of Africa. Both sides reaffirmed commitment to collaboration on health preparedness and disease control across the continent.
Ghana has not recorded any suspected or confirmed case of Ebola despite recent outbreaks in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ministry of Health said. The Ministry has activated precautionary measures nationwide including enhanced surveillance at borders, health worker training, and public awareness campaigns.
The WHO's expert panel is meeting to discuss vaccine options for a new Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, where the death toll has risen to an estimated 131 from 513 suspected cases, prompting the WHO to declare an international health emergency.
At least 100 deaths have been reported in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo with over 390 suspected cases; the WHO has declared it an international emergency. At least six Americans have been exposed to the virus during the outbreak, with one believed to have symptoms and three others said to have faced high-risk contact.