mpox vaccine Stories
These doses will primarily target the worst-affected areas, particularly focusing on at-risk populations affected by regional displacements due to sec...
Health officials have prioritised high-risk groups for vaccination, including healthcare workers, close contacts of confirmed cases, long-distance tru...
The disease has spread across 12 counties, with cases reported in Nakuru (10), Mombasa (8), Busia (7), Nairobi (2), Kajiado (2), Bungoma (2), Taita Ta...
The trial, set to take place in Kenya, will focus on assessing the vaccine's safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity.
From April to August, the virus spread to 12 additional countries, with over 1,000 deaths recorded during this period.
Congo's mpox vaccination campaign is a key step in efforts to contain the outbreak at its epicentre
WHO's latest decision comes after the EU approved the drug for the vaccine for adolescents in September.
The WHO declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years in August after a new type of the virus spread from the Democr...
Gavi, an international public-private alliance which co-funds vaccine purchases for low-income countries, said on Sept. 18 it would buy 500,000 doses...
Africa CDC Director General Jean Kaseya said that several hundred high-risk individuals in Rwanda received the vaccine earlier this week.
Four of the five Kenyans confirmed to have contracted Mpox so far are truck drivers, with the fifth being a trucker’s spouse.
The allocated budget has been categorised into three main areas: local containment, regional control and national management.
The vaccine, known as MVA-BN, is administered in two doses, four weeks apart, to individuals over 18 years.
Congo's health minister, Samuel Roger Kamba Mulamba, told reporters the newly arrived vaccine had already proved its worth in the United States and wo...
The vaccine doses' arrival would help to address a huge inequity that left African countries with no access to the two shots used in a 2022 global mpo...
The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and the World Health Organisati...
Depending on the production capacity of manufacturers, agreements for up to 12 million doses through 2025 can be made, according to the statement.
Some 230,000 mpox doses are immediately available to be dispatched, added Tim Nguyen, unit head of Global Infectious Hazards Preparedness at the World...
Despite the severity of the mpox crisis and the risk of it spreading across DRC's borders, local regulators only approved a vaccine in June with no da...
Emergent last week said it would donate 50,000 doses of its smallpox vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other impacted countries of B...
Bavarian Nordic, one of the few drug firms that currently have an mpox vaccine available, said in mid-August it had informed the Africa Centres for Di...
Since July 2024, cases of Clade Ib, linked (in the way it emerged and spread) to the outbreak in the eastern provinces of DRC, have been detected in f...
The Africa CDC has said 10 million doses may be needed across the continent.
Kenya has already confirmed its second Mpox case in a truck driver travelling from Uganda at the Malaba border, Health PS Mary Muthoni told the media.
IOM’s funding request underscores the urgent need to protect these vulnerable groups amid the Mpox outbreak across East, Horn, and Southern Africa.
Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern.
The ministry has also intensified surveillance at sea, land, and air entry points to prevent the spread of Mpox.
Authorities are also monitoring 43 people in the country who may come into contact with the patient.
During the first week of August alone, the Democratic Republic of Congo reported nearly 2,400 suspected infections and 56 deaths.
This is the second time in two years the organisation has issued an alert for the disease.
