Africa Needs New Platform of the Health Surveillance Systems
Pandemic preparedness rests on having a robust surveillance system to identify health threats – something that is still “rudimentary” in many African countries, says Professor Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist.
New Declaration of Monkeypox as Public Health Emergency
Monkeypox was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on July 23, 2022. This is the seventh declaration of a PHEIC since 2005.
Exclusive: Shut-down of the Only Mpox Vaccine Plant Raises Concerns
The manufacturer of the world’s only vaccine approved for monkeypox, Bavarian Nordic, closed its European vaccine production plant this spring and won’t reopen again until late 2022 – leading to a global monkeypox vaccine shortage, Health Policy Watch has learned.
In New Race of the Monkeypox Vaccines, Experts See Repeat Of COVID
Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning.
WHO Makes an Urgent Plea for Monkeypox Crisis
WHO’s Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, has asked the 53 countries in the WHO region to “act with urgency” in halting the Monkeypox emergency that has hit the region hardest – noting that “vaccines alone won’t end the outbreak”.
COVID Boosters: Big Shift of the Strategy on Vaccines
The Biden administration may scrap plans to let more younger adults get second COVID-19 boosters this summer. Instead, officials are trying to speed up availability of the next generation of boosters in the fall, NPR has learned.
AHF donates SARS-CoV-2 viral sequencing machine to the Caribbean
This week, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, signed an agreement with The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Catalyzing the Urgent Viral Genomic Sequencing To The Caribbean
This week, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, signed an agreement with The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Without Borders: the Need for Viral Genomic Sequencing
The world is falling dangerously behind in tracking the emergence of new COVID-19 variants by failing to scale up genomic sequencing of new cases quickly enough to keep track of the mutating virus.
