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Global COVID-19 Stats

557,917,904

Cases

6,358,899

Deaths

Africa COVID-19 Stats

12,153,412

Cases

255,476

Deaths

Publications

Featured Stories

Statement on the ongoing allegations about Africa CDC

Africa CDC’s work has positively and significantly impacted the state of health in Africa.As part of the process, the new leadership of Africa CDC is currently conducting a wide internal reform

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SOUTHVIEWS NO. 250

COVID-19, Future Pandemics and the Africa Care Economy Index. In Africa, the care economy has long been unrecognised. At least since the last major pandemic in Africa, HIV-AIDS, caring work has been

SOUTH CENTER | Read More

Disability in a pandemic – Africa’s forgotten families

Challenges for disabled people worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent attention is needed.

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Africa CDC, WHO and RKI Launch a Health Security Partnership ...

The partnership aims to strengthen Africa’s health security capabilities in the areas of biosecurity, integrated disease surveillance, event-based surveillance, genomic surveillance, and epidemic

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Featured Blogs

Building Africa’s capacity for pandemic and epidemic intelligence

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that coordination and collaboration between countries were poor…

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Ethiopia’s lessons from COVID-19

These measures helped Ethiopia to be among the few African countries that have maintained…

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The Time Is Now: We Must Step Up Support for the Poorest

At the onset of COVID, the IMF rapidly scaled up emergency financing and program support through…

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COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality: a shot in the arm for Africa

COVID-19 vaccine inequality remains, despite many of us returning…

Dev. Education | More Blogs