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The West African nation has not recorded any deaths from the virus. It has also not recorded any cases of Clade 1b, a new variant in the east of the Democratic Republic Congo that has also spread to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n
DR Congo, located in central Africa, has recorded more than 18,000 suspected cases of mpox and 615 deaths this year.<\/p>\n
There are still no mpox-specific vaccines but smallpox ones work against the disease – and are being manufactured by two pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n
Nigeria says it will prioritise health workers and at-risk communities in the 13 affected states during the vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 10 million doses are needed across the continent, with DR Congo being the most in need.<\/p>\n
Clade 1b has caused concern among governments, scientists and international health bodies, but it is currently unclear just how deadly and contagious the variant is. <\/p>\n
Mpox can be fatal if left untreated and causes symptoms such as fever, muscle aches and lesions across the body.<\/p>\n
The process of getting the first jabs to Africa has been slow, with critics saying the WHO’s regulatory process poses a major challenge.<\/p>\n
Many low- and middle-income countries rely on the WHO, rather than their own drug regulators, to judge which medications are safe and effective.<\/p>\n
But the WHO is “painfully risk-averse” and “concerned with a need to protect its trustworthiness”, the New York Times recently reported. <\/p>\n
Although two years have passed since the onset of the last outbreak driven by the Clade 2 variant prevalent in Nigeria, the WHO has not officially approved the two available vaccines, saying it does not have the data it requires to do a full review, external<\/span>.<\/p>\nProfessor Helen Rees, an adviser to the WHO and the Africa CDC, told the BBC the WHO’s regulation process was “not fit for purpose in an emergency”.<\/p>\n
She said international health bodies needed to “really look” at how they were conducting approvals when medical products were needed urgently.<\/p>\n
Only this month did the WHO ask vaccine manufacturers to register their interest in receiving an emergency licence for mpox jabs. This would allow WHO to fast track its approvals.<\/p>\n
That could have begun years ago, numerous public health officials and scientists told news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n
WHO is expected to grant its mpox emergency licences in September.<\/p>\n
Africa’s first 10,000 vaccines went to Nigeria and not DR Congo as a result of an early campaign from Nigerian health officials following the onset of the 2022 outbreak.<\/p>\n
At a press conference held in the capital, Abuja, to mark Wednesday’s arrival of the vaccines produced by Danish pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic, US Ambassador Richard Mills praised Nigeria for \u201cleading a co-ordinated effort to respond to the outbreak before it escalates\u201d.<\/p>\n
The US Agency for International Development (USAid) said it had also donated 50,000 doses to DR Congo but a delivery date had not been released.<\/p>\n
Although Africa has finally received its first delivery, the delay could have been shorter if a larger number of wealthy countries had donated jabs like the US had done, Ms Rees told the BBC’s Newsday programme.<\/p>\n
“After 2022 many of the countries that were affected by the [mpox] outbreak\u2026 many of them have stockpiles with millions of vaccines collectively stored,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Those stockpiles are obviously from a country perspective to protect their own citizens. But when you have a global emergency like this, every country should look at its stockpile and say ‘can we actually help globally?'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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