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Africa CDC's regional coordination system
First proposed before the West African Ebola epidemic and accelerated by that crisis, Africa CDC connects African Union authority with national public-health institutes, five regional coordination centres, laboratory and surveillance networks, pooled procurement, and emergency operations. Its revised statute permits continental emergency declarations, but execution still depends on uneven national systems, external finance, health workers, communities, and access to countermeasures.
How can fifty-five member states build shared public-health intelligence and emergency capacity without pretending that a continental agency can replace national and local institutions?