and the availability of vaccines, an official with the response team said, warning the campaign to distribute the shots would take longer than anticipated
Congo’s mpox vaccination campaign launched this month in the hard-hit east. A Reuters reporter at a vaccination site in North Kivu province found that locals seemed unaware or suspicious of the shots Cris Kacita, the head of Congo’s mpox response team, said more needed to be done to boost vaccine uptake, adding that the ongoing vaccination campaign would last longer than the planned 10 days.These are gaps that need to be filled,” he told Reuters.During a recent visit to a vaccination site in Kibati, a camp that hosts displaced people in North Kivu province, residents described receiving no information about the inoculation efforts.
“I know nothing about this vaccine. No one has come to educate me about any vaccination against mpox,” Simon Ngagijimana Chui, the camp chief, said. Congo’s mpox vaccination campaign is a key step in efforts to contain the outbreak at its epicentre, from where it has spread to numerous other African nations this year. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.