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More than 500 mpox patients have fled clinics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the last month amid the current conflict.Officials at Africa...

A three-day regional cross-border meeting on the Mpox epidemic is currently underway in Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana. The meeting brings together stakeholders from Ghana and...

Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency after two cases of mpox were reported.The West African country’s health minister announced the move on Monday...

Ghana has confirmed another case of MPOX in the Greater Accra Region, raising the total number of recent cases to three.The Ghana Health Service...

Mpox cases continue to spread on the African continent, showing an increase of over 500% from last year, data from the Africa Centres for...

Ghana has confirmed a second case of Mpox, bringing the total to two.The latest case is the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was...

Congolese health officials launched their first mpox vaccination campaign on Saturday, a key step in efforts to contain an outbreak that has spread from its...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced a series of immediate public health measures following the confirmation of the first Mpox case in Ghana...

The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) warned on Thursday, adding...

African countries recorded more than 100 mpox-related deaths in the past week, the continental health body said Thursday as it described the rising toll as “not...

Morocco has confirmed a case of mpox in a man in the city of Marrakech, the health ministry said. This is the first such discovery...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine...

Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the East African country to four, according to the health...

Mpox is "not the new Covid", because authorities clearly know how to control its spread, a leading World Health Organization expert has said. Despite real...

Emergent BioSolutions said on Monday it would donate 50,000 doses of its smallpox vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other impacted countries...

The Ministry of Health has announced it has activated an emergency response plan and heightened surveillance to combat Mpox disease.This includes enhanced monitoring at...

Travellers should consider getting vaccinated against Mpox if they will be visting affected areas in Africa, new advice says.The European Centre for Disease Prevention...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said Nigeria had recorded a total of 39 confirmed cases of mpox and zero...

A growing surge in mpox cases in Africa has led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a public health emergency.The outbreak, primarily affecting the...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced plans to begin mandatory Mpox screening of travellers into the country.The move forms part of heightened surveillance...

The World Health Organization(WHO) on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency.WHO convened its emergency mpox committee amid concerns that...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has increased its surveillance in the wake of the outbreak of the Mpox disease in some 15...

Health authorities in Ghana are ramping up their surveillance systems in response to a significant increase in Monkeypox (Mpox) cases since the beginning of...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an emergency committee of experts meeting to determine whether the mpox outbreak constitutes a Public Health...

For decades, conflict in the mineral-rich eastern DRC has triggered alarming levels of violence, mass displacement, widespread disease, gender-based violence and severe mental trauma,...

A new strain of the mpox virus spreading quickly along the eastern border of Democratic Republic of Congo is "incredibly worrying", say health officials...

New mpox virus transmission routes are emerging with children now a high-risk group; Inadequate testing capacity for is stymying efforts to contain the outbreak.The...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo’s western province of Equateur, the people in the Bolomba health zone have been affected by an Mpox outbreak...

Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid...

The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbes along the way. But how long...

Three individuals connected to the Aisha Huang case are facing charges for engaging in illegal mining activities and immigration-related offenses.The charges include conspiracy to...

The strike by staff of the National Identification Authority (NIA) is beginning to take a toll on citizens, as scores of people who visited...

Deputy Minister for Education, Professor Kingsley Nyarko, has urged Organised Labour to reconsider its planned nationwide strike over concerns about illegal mining, commonly known...

A building under construction at Teshie Estate has collapsed, trapping one person.The incident occurred on Tuesday, October 1.The Ghana National Fire Service(GNFS) confirmed this...

Indonesia plans to sign business deals worth $3.5 billion with African countries as it hosts the second Indonesia-Africa Forum in the resort island of...

The Regional Director of Health Service for the Volta Region, Dr Chrysantus Kubio, has called for urgent action to address gaps in routine immunisation and...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared Monkeypox (Mpox) a global health emergency.In response, the government, through the Ministry of Health (MOH), has activated...

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has renewed calls for publication of data on State lands.Addressing the press in Parliament...

The National Peace Council has pledged to continue direct engagement with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to address the party's concerns ahead of the...

The Accra Mall, West Hills Mall and Kumasi City Mall have been taken over by a South African real estate investment firm, Lango.This follows...