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Africa needs better One Health surveillance (Level A1) — black and silver stethoscope on brown wooden table

Africa needs better One Health surveillanceCEFR A1

23 Dec 2025

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Adapted from Paul Adepoju, SciDev • CC BY 2.0

Photo by Kristine Wook, Unsplash

Level A1 – Beginner
2 min
75 words
  • Experts say Africa needs better surveillance systems.
  • Surveillance must join human, animal and environmental sectors.
  • Fragmented data systems delay outbreak detection and response.
  • Communities must have many trained health workers.
  • Diagnostics must work where patients are seen.
  • Climate change and environmental damage affect disease risks.
  • Countries try to improve data sharing and coordination.
  • Funding and resources for surveillance are limited.
  • Integrated systems help detect outbreaks much earlier.
  • Communities connect to formal systems through community surveillance.

Difficult words

  • surveillance — watching health to find problems early
  • outbreak — a sudden increase in disease cases
    outbreaks
  • diagnostic — tests and tools to find disease
    Diagnostics
  • community — a group of people who live in one place
    Communities
  • integrated — joined or working together as one system
  • fragmented — broken into separate parts or systems

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Discussion questions

  • Are there many trained health workers in your community?
  • Should tests work where you see a doctor?

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