SADC Health Ministers to meet to discuss Mpox
Ministers of Health of member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are expected to meet soon to discuss the MPOX fever virus that is spreading rapidly in different parts of the world.
Ministers of Health of member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are expected to meet soon to discuss the MPOX fever virus that is spreading rapidly in different parts of the world.
SADC Executive Secretary Elias Magosi has said that a meeting of health ministers will be convened to "facilitate a mechanism to deal with the disease, which has spread in more than ten African countries."
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Mpox a "public health emergency" for the second time in the past two years.
Earlier, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared a "public health emergency", its highest level of alert, over the fast-spreading Mpox outbreak in the continent, and called for urgent action. stop its spread.
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A total of 38,465 cases of the disease, formerly known as monkey fever, have been recorded in 16 African countries since January 2022, with 1,456 deaths, and a 160% increase in cases this year 2024 compared to the previous year, according to data published last week by Africa CDC.
Mpox cases were reported for the first time last week in the countries of Burundi and Rwanda after reporting the outbreak of the disease in the DRC; while more cases are also discovered in Kenya and the Central African Republic.
