Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week. Africa's public health body is repeating a plea for long-awaited vaccines that were due to arrive this week but will now be delayed. It says the first batch of vaccine doses promised to Africa will arrive on Sept.
People sit at the Don Bosco refugee camp as Red Cross officials create awareness around mpox in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2023. Christophe Chavilinga, suffering from mpox, waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, Congo, Aug. 16, 2024. The World Health Organization declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency.
About 380,000 doses of mpox vaccines have been promised by Western partners such as the European Union and the United States, he said. That’s less than 15% of the doses authorities have said are needed to end the mpox outbreaks in Congo,Following mpox outbreaks outside the African continent in 2022, wealthy countries quickly responded with vaccines and treatments from their stockpiles. However,
“It is just a matter of now waiting on the U.S. government on the transfer of those vaccines,” Ngongo said. The Africa CDC said it is working on a unified response plan for the outbreaks which will be presented to African heads of state for consideration at a meeting in September.
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