A shipment of 11,200 doses of Mpox vaccine, donated by the United States of America and facilitated by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will arrive in Abuja, Nigeria, today.
This follows agreements signed in November by Gavi to facilitate the donation of 305,000 doses of Mpox vaccine to support the global and continental response.
This was disclosed on Gavi’s website on Friday.
It said vaccines will be delivered to countries affected by the upsurge of Mpox that continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Other Gavi Mpox outbreak support thus far includes emergency funding to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Rwanda, and 500,000 directly procured vaccines alongside funding for delivery and other related costs.
