Government Abstract
The 2024 Annual Report of the Africa Centres for Illness Management and Prevention (Africa CDC) highlights the group’s sustained efforts to deal with the continent’s evolving public well being challenges. Guided by its 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, Africa CDC achieved notable milestones throughout its six strategic precedence areas: strengthening built-in well being techniques, strengthening nationwide public well being institutes, fostering native manufacturing of well being merchandise, advancing early warning and surveillance techniques, enhancing laboratory techniques and networks, and guaranteeing sturdy emergency preparedness and response for well being threats. The report additionally underscores the essential position of cross-cutting enablers in reaching these targets, together with public well being analysis, digital well being, best-in-class well being workforce, sustainable well being financing, strengthened governance, and regional coordination.
Africa CDC supported nationwide responses to a number of main public well being emergencies, together with the mpox outbreak in 20 member states and the Marburg virus illness in Rwanda. Africa CDC declared mpox a Public Well being Emergency of Continental Safety (PHECS) on August thirteenth in session with the affected Member States and related stakeholders. The declaration was supported by a suggestion of the Emergency Consultative Group, the Advisory and Technical Council and thru endorsement of the Governing Board of Africa CDC.
For the very first time in Africa, an emergency response is led by setting up a Joint Continental Incidence Administration Help Group (IMST) co-led by Africa CDC and WHO, bringing collectively over 28 companions to collaborate on the Mpox response below the One staff with a One unified plan, One price range, and One monitoring framework. It is a historic first that marked a big milestone in Africa’s management of public well being emergencies of continental significance.
Obtain the complete report right here: 2024 A 12 months of Innovation, Response, & Resilience
