A Dire Need For New Mpox Vaccine Funding, In Africa, Now -- And, Likely To Come Mostly From The EU -- US Is Burying Its Head In The Sand...

With USAID placed largely out of commission, by Musk/Trump design. . . there are innocent, ill, malnourished children dying, daily -- all across the globe. That is no exaggeration, at all. And perhaps the emergency is no more acute than in DRC, Uganda and Sierra Leone, at the moment.

Here's CIDRAP -- of just about 40 hours ago, on it all -- it is a decidedly fluid situation, there:

. . .Yap Boum, PhD, MPH, deputy incident manager for Africa CDC's mpox response, said the case positivity in Sierra Leone last week showed a slight downward trend, a sign that the involvement of more community healthcare workers is having some success at identifying infections occurring outside of hospital settings. He also noted that Sierra Leone is having success pairing contact tracing with mpox vaccination, which he said is very efficient.

Meanwhile, Uganda has reported a slight rise in the past 3 weeks, which Boum said is expected given that the country is providing greater support for contact tracers.

Over the past week, infections in Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Zambia made up 88% of confirmed cases in Africa. . . .

[While] Bavarian Nordic mpox vaccine is available for purchase [on the ground, Africa wide], there are no funds for UNICEF and other providers to buy more doses to allocate to countries. . . .

What Tangerine has directly wrought -- is the deaths of hundreds of thousands, overall -- over the next three years, and perhaps into the millions. What an awful, vain, short-sighted. . . evil, nearly 80 year old man-child. Out.

नमस्ते