A total of 899,000 initial doses of Mpox vaccine have been allocated by the Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) to nine countries in the African region hard hit by the surge in cases of the virus, the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced. Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Africa), based in Addis Ababa.
The nine countries concerned are the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda, CDC-Afrique said in a statement. statement, noting that the largest quantity of doses (85% of the allocation) went to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the most affected country, which has reported four out of five laboratory-confirmed cases in Africa this year.
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These doses come from Canada, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as well as from the European Health Emergency Response Authority) and the United States of America, added the same source.
The Mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO and a continental security public health emergency by the Africa CDC in mid-August, recalled the press release.
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