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By Nigeria Health Watch | February 11, 2026

From Emergency to Endurance: What It Will Take to Sustain Mpox Control in Africa

Olatunde Olaoluwa and Sonia Biose (Lead writers)For the first time since the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was established, the agency used its expanded mandate under the revised 2022 statutes to declare mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) in August 2024. The PHECS is a continental alert that enables […]

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Mpox Vaccine: Africa’s Wait Continues Two Years After Global Outbreak

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 14, 2024

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim (Lead Writer) The African Continent is experiencing a new wave of Mpox (formerly monkeypox virus) cases, driven by a new ‘Clade 1b’ variant, that is spreading quickly and expanding the virus’s reach across the continent, primarily in countries surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where it was first identified. . Currently, about […]

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