Congo

December 13, 2024 4:27 PM

Congo to get Japan’s mpox vaccine for children from next week, Africa CDC says

Democratic Republic of Congo should start to receive three million doses of mpox vaccine from Japan next week that can be used on children, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday. Vaccinations against the potentially deadly infection are under way in Congo, the epicentre of the outbreak, but there have been no shots available for children, who are particularly vulnerable to mpox. Japan pledged in September to donate doses from its national stockpile...

Countries donate mpox vaccines to combat outbreak in Africa

Some countries have pledged to donate doses of mpox vaccines to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global public health emergency in August for the second time in two years. Such donations are meant to address the huge inequity that left African nations with no access to the shots used during the global outbreak in 2022. The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the current outbreak, launched its first mpox vaccination c...