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Africa needs 10 million doses of mpox vaccines

Tanzanian politician Dr. Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile has been nominated as the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa for a five-year term. This comes amid an Mpox outbreak across eight African countries, which has been declared a global health emergency. The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has called for 10 million Mpox vaccine doses to address the outbreak.  

today28 August, 2024