So the new Africa CDC headquarters will help all the African nations share data, knowledge, human resources and laboratories, and coordinate potential response to infectious diseases, Worku said.

This aerial photo taken on Jan. 8, 2023 shows the headquarters building of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

In a major step toward faster and more localized outbreak response, Africa CDC convened public health leaders from ten African countries in Yaoundé to co-develop a continental framework for ...

The site covers an area of 90,000 square metres, with a total construction area of nearly 40,000 square metres. When finished, the Africa CDC building will include an emergency operation centre, a ...

Addis Ababa, March 21, 2025 — The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched the Africa Public Health Podcast, a powerful platform designed to elevate African ...

Building on a previous MoU concluded between the EDCTP Association and Africa CDC in 2021, this new agreement introduces a structured Joint Action Plan (2025-2027) with six key areas of collaboration: ...

Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, photographed at NPR headquarters during a visit to Washington, D.C., in March. In the wake of the Trump ...

The Mastercard Foundation has announced it will deploy $1.3 billion in aid over the next three years to Africa’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) via the foundation’s Saving ...