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After Ebola and COVID-19, Africa demands stronger laws to fight future pandemics
The Pan-African Parliament is urging countries to domesticate Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) frameworks into national laws, particularly in areas including biosafety and biosecurity, public health institutions, emergency preparedness, data governance, local manufacturing of health products and cross-border health cooperation.
The committee said the partnership between the Pan-African Parliament and Africa CDC is essential to protecting African populations against current and future public health threats.
The Pan-African Parliament has called on African Union member states to speed up the adoption of continental health frameworks into national laws to strengthen pandemic preparedness, prevention and response.
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