The African Union's decision to grant autonomy to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention marks a victory for its highly regarded director John Nkengasong who had been in a tussle for control with the AU's Commissioner for Social Affairs Amira Elfadil Mohammed (AC Vol 62 No 4 A question of control)...
The organisation has been so successful that the AU Commissioner for Social Affairs Sudan's Amira Elfadil Mohammed is bidding to bring it under her direct command say sources in Addis Ababa...
Africa CDC formally launched a campaign called 'Saving Lives Economies and Livelihoods' on 20 August with two of the AU's commissioners Amira Elfadil (social affairs) and Amani Abou-Zeid (infrastructure and energy)...
According to AU Social Affairs Commissioner Amira Elfadil Mohammed the programme has three main components: test trace and treat...