Unlike the millions of dollars that poured into Congo for Ebola and COVID aid, the response to mpox has been sluggish, many ...

Health officials have zeroed in on Kamituga, a remote yet bustling gold mining town of some 300,000 people that attracts ...

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing probl ...

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 ...

Judith Suminwa Tuluka was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has set herself ambitious goals ...

Rwanda’s taking the bull by the horns in the fight against mpox, kicking off a vaccination campaign that has got everyone ...

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

Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses of the vaccine it obtained from Nigeria under an ...

African health-care workers fighting the rapid spread of a virulent mpox strain will learn how to effectively scratch under ...

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.