Combating the Escalating Mpox Crisis and Championing Vaccine Equity Across Africa: Amref’s Interventions 

This image shows a mobile outreach clinic in Afar Region, Ethiopia. It is illustrative of the kind of community-centred work Amref Health Africa undertakes across the continent, but does not depict our mpox response. (c) Amref Health Africa/Genaye Eshetu (2024)

Amref Health Africa joins the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and African governments in combating the alarming escalation of the Mpox crisis across the African continent; now declared by Africa CDC as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) and by WHO a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

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