Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses of the vaccine it obtained from Nigeria under an agreement between the two countries, the African health agency said Thursday.The vaccinations started Tuesday targeting seven districts with “high risk populations” who neighbor Congo, Dr. Nicaise Ndembi from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. Nigeria donated the 1,000 doses to Rwanda from…

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Rwanda begins vaccinations against mpox amid a call for more doses for Africa

The African health agency says that Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses it obtained from Nigeria

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The mpox virus is not under control in Africa. This was reported by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the public health agency of the African Union, on Thursday. Within a week, almost 3,000 new suspected cases of the disease were reported in Africa, of which 374 were confirmed, it said. There is also good news: the first vaccines in Africa were administered on Tuesday. This happened in Rwanda.

Het mpox-virus is niet onder controle in Afrika. Dat zegt het Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), het agentschap voor volksgezondheid van de Afrikaanse Unie, donderdag. Binnen een week tijd werden bijna 3.000 nieuwe verdachte gevallen van de ziekte gemeld in Afrika, waarvan er 374 werden bevestigd, klinkt het. Er is ook goed nieuws: de eerste vaccins in Afrika zijn dinsdag toegediend. Dat gebeurde in Rwanda.

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In the fight against MPOX, the entire African continent needs about ten million vaccine doses. The vaccination campaign has now started in Rwanda.

Im Kampf gegen Mpox benötigt der gesamte afrikanische Kontinent etwa zehn Millionen Impfdosen. In Ruanda ist die Impfkampagne jetzt angelaufen.

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Mpox vaccines have been administered in Africa for the first time, with several hundred high-risk individuals vaccinated in Rwanda, the African Union's disease control center said Thursday.

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Mpox vaccines administered in Rwanda, first in Africa

Vaccination against the mpox virus has begun in Africa - with Rwanda first with several hundred people at risk having been vaccinated, the African Union's public health agency Africa CDC says. The first 300 vaccines were distributed near the border with Congo-Kinshasa, which has been the worst affected country with close to 22,000 cases and over 700 deaths linked...

Vaccination mot viruset mpox har inletts i Afrika – med Rwanda först ut med flera hundra personer i riskzon som har vaccinerats, uppger Afrikanska unionens folkhälsosorgan Africa CDC. De första 300 vaccinerna delades ut nära gränsen till Kongo-Kinshasa, som varit det värst drabbade landet med nära 22 000 insjuknade och över 700 dödsfall kopplade...

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The vaccination campaign against mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo is to begin on October 2. The country at the epicenter of the outbreak registered more than 24,000 cases. Meanwhile, vaccination has already begun in neighbouring Rwanda. It started with a thousand doses it obtained from Nigeria under an agreement between the two countries. FRANCE 24's Clement di Roma tells us more.

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Rwanda has begun administering Mpox vaccines to high-risk individuals. The DRC, the hardest-hit country, will start vaccinations in October.

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Rwanda became the first country to start the vaccination campaign against mpox in Africa. Immunization began on Tuesday (17), where about 300 people were immunized, a spokesperson for “Africa CDC”, the health agency of the African Union, told AFP. “The vaccination started in Rwanda on September 17 and about 300 high-risk people were vaccinated,” Addis Asheber, spokesperson for the Africa CDC, told AFP on Thursday (19). These vaccinations were ca…

Ruanda se tornou o primeiro país a iniciar a campanha de vacinação contra mpox na África. A imunização começou na terça-feira (17), onde cerca de 300 pessoas foram imunizadas, disse à AFP um porta-voz da “Africa CDC”, a agência de saúde da União Africana. “A vacinação começou em Ruanda em 17 de setembro e cerca de 300 pessoas de alto risco foram vacinadas”, disse Addis Asheber, porta-voz da Africa CDC, à AFP nesta quinta-feira (19). Estas vacina…

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