The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has intensified efforts to unlock an estimated $1 1billion in health financing through debt-for-health swaps as part of a broader strategy to secure sustainable funding for the continent’s health systems. The director-general of Africa CDC, Jean Kaseya, made this known during a weekly high-level regional press briefing on Thursday. Mr Kaseya said sustainable financing is now one of the institution’s five strategic pillars, with a focus on mobilising innovative domestic resources and exploring previously underutilised mechanisms such as debt swaps. “When we talk about sustainable financing, we are looking at increasing innovative domestic resources and also bringing funding that we didn’t explore in the past, like debt sw...