Efforts to give the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, or Africa CDC, autonomy from the African Union has been a work in progress for one and a half years.
The process has involved African leaders agreeing to revise the statute of the pan-African health body, the organization hiring a new director general, and an ongoing effort to operationalize these changes.
This month, African heads of state, ministers of foreign affairs, and members of Africa CDC’s new governance structure met in Nairobi to make decisions to realize this vision for the agency.