Africa CDC

ADF STAFF Based in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Dr. John Nkengasong works near one of the world’s deadliest conflicts. Despite a national state of emergency, the fighting has not impacted the day-to-day operations of the Africa…

ADF STAFF In the fight against COVID-19, public health leaders say increasing Africa’s capacity for genomic surveillance is a key part of understanding the enemy and defeating it. If hospitals and health workers are the front line of…

ADF STAFF Although the rate of new COVID-19 cases in Africa declined in mid-November, nine nations have experienced a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) and Prevention reported.…

ADF STAFF On March 18, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a large, international study of four potential COVID-19 treatments. “We have called this study the Solidarity trial,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…

ADF STAFF With the end of the year approaching, African nations are bracing for a new round of COVID-19 infections that public health leaders hope will be less intense than previous waves. “We seem to have gone down very quickly and…

ADF STAFF Africa’s public health leaders believe tools such as testing and viral gene sequencing will help track the spread of COVID-19 and blunt the impact of future waves. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa regional office…

ADF STAFF Even as the COVID-19 pandemic demanded global attention, malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV remained the leading causes of death in Africa. New evidence is emerging to show how the pandemic has prevented the delivery of…

ADF STAFF As experts warned of a pending fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa, the United States donated 70 intensive care unit (ICU) beds to Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services. Worth more than N$700,000…

ADF STAFF A new strain of the delta variant of COVID-19 is now spreading in Russia and some European countries, creating the potential for yet another iteration of the coronavirus to make its way to Africa. The “delta plus” variant,…

ADF STAFF As some African countries emerge from the most recent round of COVID-19 infections, the continent’s public health leaders are preparing for the next wave, expected to arrive with the end-of-year holidays. “This decline is…