“The committee will meet as soon as possible and will be made up of independent experts from a range of relevant disciplines from around the world,” he added.
Recently, the Permanent Representatives Committee of the African Union has approved an emergency allocation of $10.4 million from existing COVID funds to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to support ongoing efforts to combat the Mpox outbreak across the continent.
“The funding released by the PRC will complement national efforts by African governments and support from various partners to strengthen five critical areas in the fight against Mpox: enhancing Mpox surveillance and surge capacity, boosting laboratory testing and genomic sequencing capacity, strengthening regional and national data collection and analytics, enhancing case management, infection prevention and control, risk communication, community engagement, and improving access to and delivery of vaccines, diagnostics, and supplies across the continent,” the Africa CDC disclosed in a statement.
SOURCE: PUNCH NEWS
