EU To Donate Mpox Vaccines To Africa As Public Health Emergency Is Declared

The Africa CDC says the donation of more than 215,000 doses of mpox vaccine is a “crucial step” in tackling the latest outbreak.

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mpox vaccines are to be donated to Africa. • Source: Shutterstock

The EU is to procure 175,420 doses of Bavarian Nordic A/S’s mpox vaccine, MVA-BN, and donate them to Africa where they will distributed to countries affected by the latest outbreak of the disease.

The procurement will be carried out by the European Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), and Bavarian Nordic...

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