Africa CDC intends to use the Kenya centre to monitor public health and responses to emergencies. The CDC is the leading national public health institute of the United States, the equivalent of Kemri in Kenya. Kenya has been selected to host the Eastern Africa regional collaborating centre of the Centres for Disease Control. The award is expected to strengthen the country’s health systems by enhancing disease surveillance capacity in terms of infrastructure and human resources, disease outbreak alert systems as well as lab capacity. The technical competence of the Kenya Medical Research Institute also contributed to the selection," Dr Muraguri said in a statement.

Source: The Star June 10, 2016 19:18 UTC