Category: GHSA

The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) Process: Assessing health security in Côte d’Ivoire

Serigne Ndiaye, CDC GHSA Program Director for Cote d'Ivoire, center, meets with community leaders

Conducting a JEE Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a small country in West Africa, neighboring Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. It has a population of over 25 million people, about half of whom live in urban centers across the country. Diseases of great concern for the country include yellow fever, cholera, meningitis, measles, Read More >

Posted on by Serigne Ndiaye, CDC GHSA Program Director
Categories Côte d'Ivoire, GHSA, Global health security agenda, Ivory Coast, JEE, Joint External Evaluation
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Wipe out polio in Africa for good

Great drops L Esapa

This blog was originally posted on CNN.com on August 21, 2015 This week, we detailed in a report with cautious optimism that polio will be gone not only in Nigeria but in all of Africa. Only a few years ago, Nigeria was Africa’s last outpost of polio and seemed to be losing the battle against Read More >

Posted on by CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden
Categories Archive, immunization, infectious disease, polio
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