The resurgence of mpox during 2024 has been declared a continental emergency by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and a Public Health Emergency of International ...

GENEVA - The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, warned Friday that children in Burundi are bearing the brunt of the ...

Vaccines. Community-led response. Financing. That’s what we know is needed in the mpox response. So let’s not make the same ...

UNICEF and partners are scaling up the emergency response in the DRC, Burundi and other countries in Africa, but more donor ...

Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization ...

Mpox has made a comeback in Africa. This time, it is far more deadly. There are two types of mpox: clade I and clade II.

Youngsters have been especially impacted by mpox outbreaks raging in Africa, with children under five accounting for nearly a ...

Download logo “Children in Burundi are bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak with alarming rates of infection and health impacts,” said Dr Paul Ngwakum, UNICEF Regional Health Advisor for Eastern and ...

More than 21,000 of the roughly 25,000 suspected mpox cases in Africa are in Congo, according to the most recent update from ...

A U.N. health official believes that Burundi could end its mpox outbreak within weeks, provided enough resources are secured ...

The Japanese government has signed an agreement with the government in Congo to provide 3 million doses of the mpox vaccine.

It is possible to end the mpox outbreak in Burundi within weeks, a U.N. health official said on Friday, but progress in ...