Credible news sources have indicated that vaccines to be dispersed to combat the widespread Mpox disease in Africa will meet delay for months to come.
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have sounded alarms with hopes to draw more funds to support the fight against the viral disease.
Head of Congo’s Institute National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, says that there is a need for an emergency declaration due to the rapid spread of the disease, while acknowledging the difficulties the country already faces
Africa CDC recently secured $10.4 million in emergency funding from the African Union and plans to obtain 3 million vaccine doses this year, though details are limited. In Congo, only 65,000 doses are expected soon, with vaccination campaigns unlikely before October.
