Africa CDC

The plan targets key pillars of outbreak control, including emergency coordination, disease surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, infection prevention and control, and clinical case management.

The leaders also pledged to protect essential services such as education, routine healthcare, cholera control and measles response efforts as countries confront the growing public health threat.

The partnership builds on Africa CDC’s recent efforts to accelerate the deployment of community health workers across the continent through collaborations with regional partners.

The funding comes as health authorities across the continent intensify efforts to contain the rapidly evolving outbreak linked to the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus.

Authorities also dispatched a team of 35 experts from Kinshasa to reinforce surveillance, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, and community engagement efforts in the affected areas.

The continental framework outlines actions to expand newborn screening, early diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, financing, advocacy, local production of commodities, research, and integrated care systems.

Four deaths have already been confirmed through laboratory testing, while additional suspected cases remain under investigation in Bunia, a densely populated urban centre in Ituri province.

Through the proposed partnership, Africa CDC and Aspen plan to establish a multi-year collaboration to boost local manufacturing capacity, improve supply security, and create sustainable markets for African-made vaccines.

The financing consortium includes Proparco, the European Investment Bank through the Human Development Accelerator initiative, and the International Finance Corporation.

This year’s event also builds on commitments outlined in the Durban Promise, adopted during CPHIA 2025, which calls for stronger governance, increased investment in primary healthcare systems, and greater regional collaboration to achieve health sovereignty.