The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have committed to guiding the ...

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 ...

initiatives for mpox vaccine funding in Africa, and bird flu testing expansions. Additionally, it addresses potential impacts ...

In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that if subsidies are allowed to expire next year, nearly 4 million people will lose their coverage in 2026 because they won’t be able to afford it, NBC News ...

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The distribution plan prioritizes the most affected regions, with the Democratic Republic of Congo receiving 85 percent of ...

there have been about 43,000 suspected cases of mpox in Africa, including more than 1,000 deaths, mostly in Congo, the AP said. In response to the ongoing outbreak, the World Health Organization ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

Four cases of the more infectious variant of mpox have been reported in the U.K., making it the first cluster of infections ...

The spread of mpox has slowed down slightly across Africa but the epidemic is not over, the African Union's health watchdog ...

The Africa Centre for Disease Control is urging the U.S. to maintain financial and vaccine support for its mpox outbreak response, initially pledged by President Joe Biden. Concerns have arisen over ...