NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- THE Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has partnered with the Novo Nordisk Foundation to strengthen public health workforce capacity for Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs) surveillance across ten African Union (AU) Member States.

According to the Director-General of Africa CDC, Dr Jean Kaseya, non-communicable diseases are rising rapidly across continent, yet surveillance systems remain weak so the Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of more than 5bn/- (2.65m US dollars) towards the initiative from June 2025 up to 2027, and the Africa Public Health Foundation (APHF) will act as fund manager for the grant.

“ This partnership with the Novo Nordisk Foundation comes at a critical ...