The Democratic Republic of the Congo and other affected African countries intend to start vaccinating against mpox within days, reports Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
The Africa CDC has been collaborating with the countries experiencing mpox outbreaks on communications strategies and the logistics of distributing the vaccines that are due to arrive, following commitments from the European Union vaccine producers (Bavarian Nordic), the US and Japan, reports Reuters .
Last week, the World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreak a global public health emergency as a new variant of the disease spread through DRC and other countries.
End of next week vaccines will start to arrive in the DRC and other countries,' Africa CDC Director General Jean Kaseya told a briefing.
'We need to make sure that the supply chain management, the logistics are ready...to ensure that this vaccine will be safely stored and can be safely administered to people who need it.'
