Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has a vision: to become world-class and self-sustaining and position itself in line with universal health coverage, Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. To do so, it is proposing a New Deal 

Infectious diseases continue to be the major causes of mortality and morbidity in Africa. The impact of known existing, emerging and re-emerging diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and others are causing suffering and mortality to a wide proportion of populations in low- and middle-income countries in general, and Africa in particular. Over 227 million years of health life have been lost with an annual productivity loss exceeding $800 billion in Africa. With malnutrition a common contributor to illness, the five highest causes of mortality in Africa are acute respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis – being responsible for about 80% of the total infectious disease burden and claiming more than 6 million people every year.