Dr Jean Kaseya: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- head of the African Union's health agency
- Quoted on
- Public health & prevention, Children's health, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 4 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“A vaccine could be ready by the end of the year.”
What Dr Jean Kaseya has said
“Many women in Africa don't have access to that. We need to also manufacture that so that we can cut the price.”
Director-General of Africa CDC · Children's health · 30 Sept 2026 · Special edition: Moving mother and child health ‘into the fast lane’ ↗
“"It means there is a huge risk of transmission [being] sustained in the community," Kaseya says. "We still have some confirmed cases not admitted [to hospital]. They are somewhere in the community, elsewhere."”
director general of Africa CDC · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Ebola one month on: will the latest outbreak in DRC become the most deadly yet? ↗
Where Dr Jean Kaseya has been quoted
- WHO puts Ebola outbreak death rate at ‘huge’ 30-50% as chief arrives in DRCtheguardian.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Special edition: Moving mother and child health ‘into the fast lane’devex.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Ebola one month on: will the latest outbreak in DRC become the most deadly yet?theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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