Medical Xpress September 19, 2024
Lessons learned from the COVID pandemic have left the world in a much better position to tackle the current mpox epidemic raging in Africa, according to the Gavi vaccine alliance.
The COVID catastrophe brought with it “important learnings, and those learnings were drawn upon”, said Gavi chief Sania Nishtar.
“Those learnings cascaded into specific instruments that are now coming into play” against mpox, the former Pakistani health minister told AFP in an interview this week.
When COVID emerged in early 2020 and quickly began its deadly rampage around the globe, it revealed how completely unprepared the international community was to face such a global health crisis.
It also shone a light on glaring global vaccine inequity, as wealthy countries snapped...
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