Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is a specialized technical institution of the African Union established to support public health initiatives of Member States and strengthen the capacity of their public health institutions to detect, prevent, control and respond quickly and effectively to disease threats. Africa CDC supports African Union Member States in providing coordinated and integrated solutions to the inadequacies in their public health infrastructure, human resource capacity, disease surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, and preparedness and response to health emergencies and disasters.
Established in January 2016 by the 26th Ordinary Assembly of Heads of State and Government and officially launched in January 2017, Africa CDC is guided by the principles of leadership, credibility, ownership, delegated authority, timely dissemination of information, and transparency in carrying out its day-to-day activities. The institution serves as a platform for Member States to share and exchange knowledge and lessons from public health interventions.
Objectives
- Establish early warning and response surveillance platforms to address all health threats and health emergencies and natural disasters in a timely and effective manner.
- Assist Member States to address gaps in capabilities required for compliance with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005).
- Support and/or conduct regional- and country-level hazard mapping and risk assessments for Member States.
- Support Member States in health emergency responses, particularly those which have been declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
- Support health promotion and disease prevention through health systems strengthening, by addressing infectious and non-communicable diseases, environmental health and NTDs.
- Promote partnership and collaboration among Member States to address emerging and endemic diseases and public health emergencies.
- Harmonize disease control and prevention policies and the surveillance systems in Member States.
- Support Member States in public health capacity-building through medium- and long-term field epidemiological and laboratory training programmes.
Administratively, Africa CDC is designed to operate a decentralized model that allows it to work with National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) of Member State through five Regional Collaborating Centres located in Egypt, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia, for the Northern Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, and Southern Africa regions, respectively.
EDCTP Networks of Excellence
EDCTP supports networks of research centres that are involved in clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa. These Networks of Excellence (NoEs) facilitate research collaboration by uniting diverse institutions in the four regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The Global Health Network supports a number of EDCTP NoEs via dedicated knowledge hubs.
Each institution contributes its individual strengths in areas such as good clinical practice, good clinical laboratory practice, data management, laboratory techniques and epidemiology, to the network in the context of on going clinical research work. By collaborating they learn and develop, and thereby raise the quality of clinical research and practice in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each of the NoE's has a related memberhub within The Global Health Network:
EDCTP supports four Regional Networks of Excellence, in Central, East, Southern and Western Africa, to strengthen regional networking and to provide platforms for research training and multicentre studies.
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CANTAM
Central Africa Clinical Research Network |
EACCR
Eastern Africa Consortium for Clinical Research |
TESA
Trials of Excellence in Southern Africa |
WANETAM
West African Network for TB, AIDS and Malaria |
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