Spain to supply Africa with 100,000 vials of monkeypox vaccine with doses for 500,000 people.

The Ministry of Health believes that it is essential to act in several Central African countries to be able to firmly contain the current situation.

Minister of Health Monica Garcia.

The epicentre of the public health emergency of international concern caused by monkeypox is in several countries in Central Africa, and the Ministry of Health considers it necessary to act in this region to be able to firmly and firmly contain the current situation, so as not to repeat the situation of 2022-2023, when the international emergency was falsely closed.

For this reason, Spain has informed the European Commission that it will contribute 20% of its contribution. stock vaccines, that is, 100,000 vials, which would be enough to vaccinate 500,000 doses.

The European Commission has announced that it will donate 215,000 vaccines. It is believed that around 2 million vials and around 10 million doses are needed to contain the current situation.

The Spanish government is calling on the European Commission to extend to all member states the offer to donate 20% of their funds. stock vaccines to combat the current situation.

In recent months, negotiations have been underway within the World Health Organization (WHO) on a Pandemic Agreement, and the published drafts provide donation scenarios for pandemic situations, which, according to the Ministry of Health, should be launched in the current situation. with monkeypox. For this reason, it is considered that there is no point in stockpiling vaccines where there is no problem, and now is the time to demonstrate this.