The evidence for that is clear: officials in Congo-Kinshasa the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO) are playing catch-up to contain an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 200 people and for which no vaccine has progressed beyond the trial stage (AC Vol 67 No 11 Jean Kaseya: Ebola crisis manager & Dispatches 25/5/26 Ebola outbreak puts vaccine ambitions on trial)...

Congo-K's Health Minister Samuel Kamba said on 4 June that health workers can now monitor 55% of contacts up from 9% in mid-May (AC Vol 67 No 11 Jean Kaseya: Ebola crisis manager)...

‘We are [still] building the foundations for the next pandemic ' said Dr Jean Kaseya Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024 when African countries were still struggling to obtain mpox vaccines promised by donor states a year after the virus had swept through parts of eastern Congo-Kinshasa before spreading across the continent (AC Vol 65 No 19 Vaccine shortfall risks spread of deadly new mpox strain)...

It argues strongly against giving up sovereign rights Director General Jean Kaseya citing ‘huge concerns regarding data'...

At the heart of the crisis are the same factors that held back Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic according to Jean Kaseya Director General of the Africa CDC: lack of affordable vaccines together with poor information exchange and disease surveillance...