Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas.

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their Joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks, while ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have updated their ...

Africa requires more than $220 million to sustain and scale up its response to the ongoing mpox outbreak, as the ...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA | Xinhua | The number of mpox cases reported in Africa in the past three months has been more than half ...

The AU's specialised healthcare agency indicated that the African continent has reported 39,840 mpox cases so far in 2025, ...

Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) cumulatively reported 94 percent of the confirmed cases during the previous week, the Africa CDC said. "We see that the number of cases ...

In Uganda, the virus is spreading in urban areas and among sexual networks, posing contact-tracing challenges.

More than 40 years ago, when people were diagnosed with HIV/Aids, they were often given only one to two years to live ...

Scientists raise alarm about new variants, urge national disease testing ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with ...