mpox
14 Jan
Sierra Leone declared a public health emergency on Monday to combat mpox, announcing it was stepping up surveillance at its borders after confirming two cases of the deadly viral disease.
20 Dec
A shipment of 11,200 doses of Mpox vaccine, donated by the United States of America and facilitated by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is set to arrive in Abuja, Nigeria, today. This delivery follows agreements signed in November by Gavi to facilitate the donation of 305,000 doses of Mpox vaccine to support global and continental response…
17 Dec
Mpox is present in almost every district in Burundi, a doctor warned Tuesday, condemning authorities handling of the outbreak and refusal to communicate. In September, the East African nation was the second hardest-hit country on the continent after the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the United Nations warning that children were especially impacted by mpox.…
14 Nov
The African Union's health watchdog on Thursday said it endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a "major milestone" to help combat the outbreak on the continent. The announcement comes three months after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the mpox outbreak a public health emergency. The CDC…
1 Nov
More than 50,000 people have so far been vaccinated against mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the World Health Organization's chief said on Friday. The outbreak is still not under control, the African Union's health watchdog warned a day earlier, appealing for resources to avoid a "more severe" pandemic than Covid-19. More…
1 Nov
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says Nigeria has yet to announce a date for Mpox vaccinations rollout, even as cases keep surging across Africa. The organisation noted that presently, Mpox cases in the continent have risen to more than 500 per cent from last year’s record. Dr Ngashi Ngongo, Chief…
31 Oct
The African Union's health watchdog on Thursday warned that mpox outbreak was still not under control and appealed for resources to avoid a "more severe" pandemic than Covid-19. More than 1,100 people have died of mpox in Africa, where some 48,000 cases have been recorded since January, according to the Centres for Disease Control and…
29 Oct
Worried by the recorded cases of Mpox in Akwa Ibom State, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has embarked on a sensitization exercise to educate the public on the prevalence and prevention of the virus in the state. Available reports from the Ministry of Health showed that Akwa Ibom State has recorded eleven cases of the…
29 Oct
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Akwa Ibom State has begun to educate people on the prevalence and prevention of the monkeypox
25 Oct
The government of Cross River has discovered two new cases of M-pox in Calabar Municipality, raising the number identified in the council to five. Special Adviser to the Governor on Health, Dr Ekpo Bassey disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Calabar. NAN reports that M-pox which…
15 Oct
Mpox has spread to 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), affecting 63 local government areas in Nigeria
14 Oct
As Nigeria plans vaccination against monkeypox (mpox) in high-burden states, the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) has concluded plans to downscale training on response coordination regarding the virus across the 774 local councils to prevent humanitarian crisis due to its spread.
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