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Rwanda has rolled out an Mpox vaccination campaign as the continent struggles to access enough jabs. Rwanda has started with a batch of 1000 doses obtained from Nigeria under an agreement between the two countries, AP reported. Rwanda is neighboring eastern DRC where the epicenter of Mpox is located. The Mpox outbreak was declared a […]
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said it signed a deal with Bavarian Nordic to acquire 500,000 Mpox jabs to be sent to Africa urgently. The vaccine’s will be funded by Gavi’s First Response Fund, a new financial mechanism created in June 2024 to make cash rapidly available to purchase vaccines in health emergencies. The Mpox outbreak […]
The 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa, initially scheduled to take place in Morocco next November will be postponement, due to the current epidemiological situation on the continent. The announcement was made by Director General of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Jean Kaseya, at a news conference after […]
Germany has pledged to donate 100,000 doses of the Money Pox (mpox) vaccines to Africa, after France and Austria made similar commitments last week and as the continent is to belatedly receive 10,000 shots in the coming days amid criticism of delays caused by the World Health Organization’s (WTO) red tape. The first batch of […]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is between a rock and a hard place. The country has to deal with an insurgency in its east where a virus is rapidly spreading outside of the country’s borders. As the World Health Organization declares the new Mpox strain found in the DRC a global emergency, infighting worsens […]
Moroccan health authorities are making plans in case an Mpox case was detected in the country, after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global emergency. The virus has been spreading rapidly in DRC and other African countries and was detected outside the continent in recent days. Plans are under way to ensure Moroccan […]
Morocco’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection announced on Thursday that it is closely monitoring the epidemiological situation of monkeypox (Mpox), which is spreading rapidly and on a large scale in several African countries, as part of the international epidemiological surveillance system. The national vigilance and response plan to this epidemic was updated in accordance […]