The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said its inability to serve as an “implementing entity” for the new Pandemic Fund cripples its ability to protect the health of African citizens.
The Pandemic Fund, which is hosted by the World Bank, and is led from a technical standpoint by the World Health Organization, is a pool of public and private financing aimed at helping low- and middle-income countries in pandemic preparedness and response.
But Africa CDC has not been accredited by the fund as an “implementing entity” — which is necessary for it to access this funding independently on behalf of African nations.