The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has reported that since 2021, foreign assistance on African health has dropped by nearly 70 percent, a development threatening progress registered in combating non-communicable and communicable diseases on the continent.

Speaking during a Virtual Media Launch for 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2025), Director General for the Africa CDC, Dr. Jean Kaseya called on African countries to rethink on how to improve health financing, management and healthcare delivery.

Dr. Kaseya is concerned that infectious disease outbreaks are rising, with more than 40 percent recorded in Africa region in the past two years.

He noted that Africa imports at least 90 percent of medicines and vaccines, calling on African scientists and other stakeholders to scale-up the production of locally-made medicines and vaccines to reach out to over 1.4 billion Africans.

"Africa can not continue to do business as ussual. We must rethink how we finance the health sector," said Dr. Kaseya.

Chairperson for the Universal Health Service Coalition, George Jobe says Malawi cannot depend on foreign funding alone.

He recommends that authorities must scale up funding for health care systems.

"We need to ensure that the 15 percent Abuja Declaration is fulfilled for us to reduce the impact of this donor fatigue. We have also been calling for the introduction the health service fund through tax," said Jobe.

During the conference, President for AfricaBio, Dr. Nhlanhla Msomi noted that Africa has been battling around 200 epidemics, which majority lack counter-measures.