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MPOX VACCINE
China and Korea have contributed $4 million to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)...
Nigeria, along with 16 other African countries, to receive support from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to enhance mpox vaccine preparedness amid a shortage of supplies.
An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated to Nigeria and 8 other countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organizations said on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has given its approval for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF to initiate the procurement of vaccines to combat mpox, despite the Emergency Use Listing (EUL) decision still pending.
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has donated 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to Nigeria.
Dr. Dimie Ogoina, an infectious diseases expert at Niger Delta University Hospital and chair of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mpox emergency committee, has raised concerns about Africa's preparedness in combating the new strain of mpox.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to make a decision on the issuance of an emergency use listing (EUL) for mpox vaccine within the next three weeks.
Germany announced on Monday that it would donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to African countries grappling with a severe outbreak of the virus.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced its comprehensive strategy to tackle the spread of Mpox with the deployment of 23 million vaccine doses in 2024.