Disease Preparedness Funding: Cameroon has launched a three-year pandemic preparedness programme backed by nearly $160m to boost disease surveillance, lab capacity, emergency response and health workforce training under a One Health approach, including digital community surveillance in 40+ municipalities and antimicrobial resistance monitoring at 42 sentinel sites. Public Health Systems: The same week also highlights how global HIV funding cuts are already weakening prevention, testing and community-led treatment services—raising fears of setbacks in decades of progress. Health Security at Borders: Cameroonian public health researcher Dr. Fatima Ameaka (Johns Hopkins) was detained by ICE at Baltimore airport over alleged visa overstays, then released after colleagues and legal teams pushed back; the case underscores how airport immigration enforcement can disrupt health research work. Transport & Health Access: Cameroon-US transport talks in Yaounde focused on reforms to ship registration and cracking down on fraudulent use of the Cameroonian maritime flag—an indirect but important step for safer logistics. Fuel Scarcity Support: SCDP awarded a 2.359bn FCFA contract to expand Ngaoundéré depot storage by building a new 3,000-cubic-meter diesel tank, aiming to strengthen northern fuel logistics that affect health service delivery. Digital Health Innovation: Yaounde’s ICT Innovation Week is set to pitch finalists’ projects with a health focus, as young innovators prepare for awards.