50,000 Doses Of Monkey Pox Vaccine To Be Given To African Union

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Health December 2, 2022

The South Korean Government is set to donate 50,000 doses of the monkey pox vaccines to the African Union. This will be Africa’s first weapon against the outbreak ever since it began. In July, the U.N. health agency designated monkeypox as a global emergency and appealed to the world to support African countries. Further, they did this to avoid repeating the catastrophic vaccine inequity that plagued the outbreak of COVID-19.

Africa Centres for Disease Control acting director, Dr Ahmed Ogwel revealed the categories to receive top priority. He said health workers and those living in the most affected areas will be given first priority.

“Our criteria will look at countries that are reporting a lot of cases, deaths and whether they have the capacity to deliver the vaccines to where it is required,” Dr Ogwel told journalists in a virtual press briefing.

13 out of the 55 African countries are currently dealing with an active outbreak of monkeypox which is now known as the Mpox. Most of these cases have been registered in Nigeria, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The CDC also revealed its concern about the accelerated spike in cases in DR Congo. In the past week alone, the country has registered 51 new cases and four deaths.

Mpox is a known epidemic in the west and central Africa. But until the disease caused unusual outbreaks in Europe and USA, health officials hadn’t given vaccines a single thought. So far, Africa has reported 1,047 new cases and 202 deaths.

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