Africa CDC asks for immediate action to protect life in front of health and safety crises – Africa CDC

Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, 31 January, 2025 – Africa face an unprecedented convergence of crises threatening to destroy decades of progress in terms of health safety. In 2022-2023, in 2024, 153 epidemic outbreak exploded in health emergency on the continent, thus an increased threat to a new emerging epidemic in Africa. At the same time, changes in global priorities inspired many rich countries to fall back to themselves, which reduced the development aid to favor their national needs, especially aid of the 90-day suspension of the American foreigner’s 90-day suspension. With the announcement.

The results are worrying. According to Estimates from Africa CDC, without immediate intervention, these financial obstacles may reverse the progress made in terms of health, bringing the level of sickness and mortality in the early 2000s. The year can be due to avoidable and healing diseases. This heavy human record will also cause massive economic losses, which will cost billions of dollars in Africa and will submerge about 39 million additional people in poverty. This is not only an African crisis, but a global crisis in creating.

Africa CDC did not remain silent. As soon as the suspension of American funding was announced, we immediately started talks with the US administration. Our Managing Director, Dr. Jean Kaseya, brought this message to global platforms including CNN, allowed the continuity of significant human assistance by arguing for a discount. Thanks to this intervention, a discount is given, the continuity of the necessary intervention is guaranteed. But this is only a fight between many others. This situation should be an alarm signal for African leaders to implement innovative financing mechanisms and increase national investment in public health.

While Africa tries to protect its population, peace remains a missing element. In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this is not clear anywhere for Goma. This is not just a security problem, but a real public health emergency. Goma, a city of three million residents, including one million displaced people, displays one of the highest population density in the world – 39,620 people per square kilometers – adequate health infrastructure or basic services such as water, hygiene and hygiene Without. Combined with these extreme conditions, insecurity and large -scale visits, in favor of mutation of the MPOX virus, gave birth to Clade 1B in 2023 in 2023. This stress has already caused the death of thousands of children and youth and has been strongly sexually transmitted. Goma has become a subscription to spread the MPOX in 21 African countries, including members of SADC and EAC. These similar conditions have also promoted the widespread epidemic of measles and cholera, causing thousands of deaths.

The Africa CDC has tirelessly attempted to secure MPOX vaccines and other essential health products for the east of Goma and DRC. But without peace and safety, these supply cannot reach children and mothers who need them the most.

Africa CDC CEO Dr. Jean Kaisya said, “I am ready to go there to guarantee the delivery of these important interventions, but we need safe access.” “For my African counterparts: Let’s end this useless war. If we do not work, these are not bullets that will kill us, but the outbreak of the major epidemic and the outbreak of the major epidemic and the epidemic emerging from this region, our economies and our economies and our No one will be spared by destroying businesses.

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