At IDWeek 2024 in Los Angeles, California, recent updates on mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) were discussed.

“Both organisations made concerted efforts to help countries acquire vaccines amid ongoing outbreaks. WHO added the MVA-BN vaccine to its prequalification list on September 13, 2024, and established ...

Kenya is among nine countries in Africa that have been allocated MPOX vaccine doses, following an MPOX surge in the continent ...

The World Health Organisation and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention experts have decided to provide ...

Nigeria, along with 16 other African countries, to receive support from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for ...

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

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) are intensifying efforts to support Mpox vaccine preparedness and deployment in Nigeria and ...

The Africa Centre Disease Control (CDC), with global health partners, has announced the launch of a "pivotal" clinical trial ...

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The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) for mpox, a mechanism formed to counter mpox, has allocated an initial 899,000 ...

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated to Nigeria and 8 other countries across Africa that have been hit ...

Pregnant women and infants are at risk should they contract mpox but there are no approved vaccines for this population.