Africa CDC opens regional office in Kenya
From left: Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, African Union Commission for Health humanitarian Affairs and Social Development Amira Elfadil, Tanzanian Minister of health Dorothy Gwajima, and Uganda State Minister of Health in Charge of General Duties, Anifa Bangirana Kawooya during the official unveiling of the Eastern Africa Regional Collaborating Centre (EA-RCC) in Nairobi on October 1, 2021.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched its Eastern Africa regional co-ordination centre in Kenya.
The health agency's Eastern Regional Co-ordination Center (RCC), which was launched by Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Friday, will coordinate Africa CDC's activities in the 14 member states in Eastern Africa since it is already involved in strengthening surveillance and laboratory systems in the region.
This means that the centre, which is hosted by the Ministry of Health at Afya House Annex, will will be involved in supporting response to disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies in the region.
Priority infectious diseases for the region include viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Rift Valley fever (RVF), Ebola and others which affect member states.
The 14 countries that will be served by the office are Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar and Rwanda. Others are Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
