Follow-up – Al-Rasheed
The World Health Organization announced today, Monday, the launch of a 6-month plan to help stop the outbreak of monkeypox, which includes increasing the number of staff in affected countries and strengthening surveillance, prevention and response strategies.
The organization indicated that it expects the plan, which will continue from September to February next year, to require $135 million in funding, and aims to improve equitable access to vaccines, especially in African countries most affected by the outbreak.
“The monkeypox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries can be controlled and stopped,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
He added that “the organization has increased the number of its employees in the affected countries.”
In mid-August, the World Health Organization classified the monkeypox outbreak as a global health emergency.
