Nigeria, Feb. 10 -- - Reducing risk, strengthening markets, securing health futures

At the 38th African Union Summit in February 2025, the continent's Heads of State and Government issued a deliberate and consequential resolution. Health security, local manufacturing and system resilience were no longer to be treated as external dependencies to be managed, but as responsibilities to be owned. This reflected a shared recognition that Africa's vulnerability to recurrent disease outbreaks and medical supply disruptions constitute a structural risk to development, political stability and economic resilience, with direct implications for productivity, fiscal sustainability and regional integration.

One year on, the rationale for that resolut...