Press Release - The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly to expand their partnership to strengthen epidemic and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response in...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly to expand their partnership to strengthen epidemic and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response in Africa .
"The New Public Health Order calls to action to build resilient health systems capable of managing recurrent, high-impact infectious disease and outbreaks; an action-oriented partnership such as this is at the core," said.
In line with the African Union's ambition to produce 60% of the continent's vaccine needs in Africa by 2040 under the Africa CDC's Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing ; the expanded partnership will ultimately focus its efforts on enhancing research and development, building a workforce as well as supply chain optimization to support resilient health systems This ambition will increase vaccine sovereignty and reduce external reliance, helping prevent a recurrence of the...
In alignment with Africa CDC, the partnership also aims to bolster Africa's research ecosystem and clinical trial infrastructure, including targeted capacity strengthening through CEPI'sBuilding on existing clinical trial capability in some African countries is vital as vaccine candidates against endemic diseases, such as, progress into late-stage development.
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