Angola received 2,000 life-saving oral cholera vaccines for frontline healthcare workers from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in March 2025.

The Moroccan consortium, led by Institut Pasteur du Maroc, was appointed co-host of Africa CDC's North Africa Regional Capacity and Capability Network (RCCN) to advance regional vaccine innovation and ...

Africa's top public health institution is warning of the risks of losing the gains made over the past two decades in epidemic preparedness and response. At the heart of the concern is a steep decline ...

Join us for the weekly engagement with the media to provide updates on the mpox outbreak in multiple countries and the Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda. The session will also highlight extreme weather ...

On the podcast “Honestly with Bari Weiss,” Bhattacharya pointed to OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks lobbying and money in ...

They are trained, equipped, and programmed to save lives during outbreaks. They are a human shield designed to stop the spread of infections on command.The passionate African Volunteers Health Corps ...

For Mbali Shongwe, a 25-year-old South African social activist, the importance of mental health awareness is deeply personal.

Nairobi: Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the continent faces "an unprecedented financing crisis" that could lead to between two to four million ...

In a major stride toward bolstering Liberia's capacity for early disease detection and response, the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), in collaboration with the Africa Centres for ...

Burundi has revised and approved its Mpox Response Plan and Marburg-Ebola Preparedness Plan, signaling a high-level commitment to strengthening outbreak response efforts in the country.A validation ...

Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with virus control measures already disrupted, public health experts warn.Mpox testing and monitoring ...

Liberia has received 10,800 doses of the mpox vaccines. Healthcare workers and those who came into close contact with affected persons are earmarked for the yet-to-launch vaccination ...