The UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, issued an urgent appeal on Friday for nearly $59 million to support efforts to halt the rapid ...

UNICEF and partners are scaling up the emergency response in the DRC, Burundi and other countries in Africa, but more donor ...

Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses of the vaccine it obtained from Nigeria under an ...

Mpox has made a comeback in Africa. This time, it is far more deadly. There are two types of mpox: clade I and clade II.

Youngsters have been especially impacted by mpox outbreaks raging in Africa, with children under five accounting for nearly a ...

Download logo “Children in Burundi are bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak with alarming rates of infection and health impacts,” said Dr Paul Ngwakum, UNICEF Regional Health Advisor for Eastern and ...

A U.N. health official believes that Burundi could end its mpox outbreak within weeks, provided enough resources are secured ...

It is possible to end the mpox outbreak in Burundi within weeks, a U.N. health official said on Friday, but progress in ...

Approximately 80 percent of the more than 700 mpox-related deaths are among children, particularly in underserved communities ...

Mpox vaccines have been administered in Africa for the first time, with several hundred high-risk individuals vaccinated in ...

Mpox is not under control in Africa, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday. Within a ...