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Faced with huge demand for building public health capacity in the post-Ebola era, Africa Union has planned to establish Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( Africa CDC,ACDC), with headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and at least 5 regional collaborating centers in each region of the continent .The strategic objectives of ACDC focus on building a continental integrated public health system and strengthening needed public health capacity .The current study analyzed the background , plans, development layout and strategy of ACDC , and provided references for China-Africa cooperation in the areas of public health and for the formulation of China global strategies of biosecurity and disease prevention and control .
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Se describe la participación del Laboratorio Nacional de Referencia e Investigaciones en Tuberculosis y Micobacterias del Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí, en la organización del recurso bacteriológico para el diagnóstico y la búsqueda de casos, fundamentalmente en la atención primaria de salud, en apoyo al Programa Nacional de Control de la Tuberculosis. Se hace referencia a las funciones y principales actividades científicas de este Laboratorio Nacional, Centro Colaborador OPS/OMS, como cabecera de los laboratorios de la red de diagnóstico de la tuberculosis en el país. La introducción y aplicación de nuevas tecnologías de avanzada permite contar con valiosas herramientas para dar respuesta a los diferentes retos que plantean la tuberculosis y las micobacteriosis en la actualidad. Con la ejecución de un proyecto del fondo mundial de lucha contra el sida, la tuberculosis y la malaria, se ha fortalecido la red de diagnóstico, lo que debe contribuir, en un futuro cercano, a la eliminación de la tuberculosis como problema de salud en Cuba
The participation of the National Laboratory of Reference and Research on Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria of Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine in the organization of the bacteriological resources for the diagnosis and screening of cases in the primary health care, in support of the national program for control of tuberculosis, was described in this paper. Reference was made to the functions and main scientific activities of this laboratory, which is a PAHO/WHO collaborating center at the forefront of the tuberculosis diagnosis laboratory network in the country. The introduction and the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies have allowed valuable tools to be used to meet several challenges posed by tuberculosis and mycobacteria nowadays. Thanks to the implementation of a World Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria project, the diagnosis network has strengthened, which must contribute to the elimination of tuberculosis as a health problem in Cuba in the near future