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From Response to Resilience: Practices and Prospects for China-Africa Public Health Cooperation

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Africa bears a heavy burden of infectious diseases, and emerging and re-emerging infections continue to threaten regional and global health security, making stronger China-Africa public health cooperation increasingly important.This article reviews how the policy and conceptual framework supporting China-Africa public health cooperation took shape and traces the history of this cooperation across tropical disease control, health emergency response, and systematic technical collaboration on infectious disease control.Guided by China's 15th Five-Year Plan for National Health and responding to Africa's growing need for stronger public health systems, we propose six priority areas for future cooperation: infectious disease surveillance and early warning, laboratory networks, emergency preparedness and coordinated response, public health product access and local production, community public health services, and local adaptation of appropriate technologies.Future cooperation should remain demand-driven and emphasize technology transfer, workforce development, and sustainable capacity building, thereby strengthening resilience and making China-Africa public health cooperation more systematic and sustainable.

Source: China CDC Weekly

DOI: 10.46234/ccdcw2026.217