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A new chapter for pathogen surveillance in Africa

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: WHO, Africa Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI; Berlin, Germany) announced in May, 2025, that they were expanding their Health Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Intelligence in Africa, officially launched in July 2023, into a second, 3-year phase. In this phase, Rwanda will join existing partner countries, The Gambia, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, and Tunisia. The partners said they are advancing “collaborative surveillance”, linking the signal-spotting and threat assessment of epidemic intelligence with the laboratory and genomic capacity that turns those signals into actionable evidence.

Source: The Lancet Microbe

DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101304

Author: Paul Adepoju

Language: English

Topic: Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Partnerships for the goals, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $7,280

OpenAlex ID: W4416967150

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