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

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

In August, the disease which continues to spread in Africa was ... it said. Mpox can spread through close contact. Usually ...

With the mpox vaccine supply constraints, countries will need to develop very targeted deployment plans, guided by local epidemiology," said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. More ...

Private insurance companies in the U.S. aren’t required to cover the cost of the mpox vaccine, which costs $270 a dose.

The Africa CDC said the vaccination deployment guide was created in anticipation of the vaccine delivery to the region.

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

The epidemic in Africa continues to grow, prompting fears of another outbreak in the U.S. But the vaccine is no longer free, ...

An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current ...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged ...

Africa must boost local vaccine manufacturing to beat mpox and ensure long-term health security, say public health leaders.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, drew global attention in 2022 during an outbreak that affected the U.S., Europe, Australia and many other countries. The virus comes in two distinct forms or "clades ...