WHO launches €120m plan to ‘control’ monkeypox outbreak

He Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus assured that “the current mpox flash can be controlled and stopped“, for which it was announced plan around 120 million euros in the next six months.

“Let me be clear: this new mpox outbreak can be controlled and stopped (…). To do this, A comprehensive and coordinated international response is required” he said during an information session for Member States that called for working in cooperation with international organizationscivil society, researchers and producers.

According to WHO estimates, about 135 million dollars (just over 120 million euros) of the fund needed to “combat the acute phase of the outbreak” planned for the next six months, an amount that is “expected to increase in light of growing needs” and “stop this disease,” formerly known as monkeypox, as soon as possible.

Ghebreyesus stressed that the global response plan for mpoxmust adhere to the principles of “justice, global solidarity”community learning, human rights and intersectoral coordination.

In mid-August, the WHO decided thatpublic health emergency of international concern, your highest alert leveldue to a smallpox outbreak in Africa that originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo and was caused by a new, more severe and deadly strain.

The organization developed a specific plan that requires an initial $15 million (€13.6 million) to support surveillance, preparedness and response activities on the African continent, where $1.45 million already issued (€1.31 million) from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies.