FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 -- As mpox continues to spread in Africa, Congolese authorities said Thursday that the first batch of vaccines have arrived in...

Experts have estimated they might need about 10 million vaccines to stop the ongoing outbreaks on the continent while donor countries have promised to...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent,...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent,...

Mpox is not COVID-19, but that pandemic’s bitter lessons have not all been learnt. By Peter Fabricius An ominous sense of déjà vu is...

While COVID exposed the urgency of ensuring that Africa can manufacture vaccines, the current mpox and cholera outbreaks have painfully underscored...

Kinshasa, Congo — The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday (10/9) received 50,000 additional vaccine doses from the United States to fight the...

The BBC’s Ian Wafula reports from a cold storage facility in Kinshasa as vaccines start arriving in the country.

Mpox is now present in 13 African countries, including Burundi, Congo-Brazzaville and the Central African Republic, according to the Africa CDC.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicenter of the ongoing Mpox outbreak in Africa, will begin its first phase of vaccination on October 2.