The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has issued interim guidelines to African Union member states to strengthen surveillance and cross-border preparedness against the Ebola Bundibugyo strain.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services received N$18,4 million from Japanese Supplemental Budget Project to support health security, emergency preparedness and to strengthen its diagnostic capacity.

The funding and equipment were handed over in Windhoek today.

Former First Lady Monica Geingos, who serves as co chair of the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics said inequality is not inevitable but a political choice.

Geigons said that leaders can break the inequality pandemic cycle by applying the policy solutions proposed by the Council.