Our Recommendations
- Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa (2024)
- Tests diagnostiques pour la détection du virus de la variole simienne (orthopoxvirus simien, ou MPXV) (2024)
- Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report#35- 12 August 2024 (2024)
- Epidemiological Alerts and Updates (2019)
- Rapid Risk Assessment of Acute Public Health Events (2011)
New Publications
- Urgence de santé publique de portée internationale liée à la recrudescence de la mpox (variole simienne) en 2024 (2025)
- Interim guidance on strengthening community detection and response during the mpox outbreak (2025)
- Monthly Regional Cholera Bulletin (2024)
- Considerations for wastewater and environmental surveillance for monkeypox virus: interim guidance, 25 November 2024 (2024)
- Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report #42- 9 November 2024 (2024)
Filter
212
Featured
Recommendations
18
New Publications
54
Language
Document type
No document type
96
Situation Updates
39
Studies & Reports
16
Fact sheets
15
Resource Platforms
11
Guidelines
10
Online Courses
8
Videos
5
Infographics
4
Training Material
3
Strategic & Response Plan
3
Manuals
1
Dashboards/Maps
1
Countries / Regions
Madagascar
15
Nigeria
10
Brazil
10
Africa
8
Congo, Democratic Republic of
8
Latin America and the Carribbean
4
Global
3
Germany
3
Argentina
3
Angola
3
Liberia
3
Colombia
2
Sierra Leone
2
Togo
2
Venezuela
2
Uganda
2
Yemen
2
Nepal
1
Kenya
1
Ghana
1
Rwanda
1
Syria
1
Peru
1
Philippines
1
Mozambique
1
Haiti
1
Asia
1
West and Central Africa
1
Western Pacific Region
1
Western and Central Europe
1
Bolivia
1
Ethiopia
1
Chad
1
Ecuador
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
35
Key Resources
34
Clinical Guidelines
29
Public Health
7
Capacity Building
5
Women & Child Health
1
22 September 2024
This is the 42nd situation report for the multi-country outbreak of mpox, which provides an update on the epidemiological situation of mpox in Africa (including countries in the WHO African Region and some countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region), with data as of 3 November 2024.
Issue Brief 39
Mpox is a zoonotic disease caused by a double-stranded DNA virus that belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family. The disease presents with symptoms similar to smallpox but with a lesser severity. It was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a poxlike disease occurred in co...
Ressource Platform
On August 13, 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS). The following day, the WHO declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). A coordinated, continent-wide response is essential, co-led by the African Union...
The Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for mpox, covering the six-month period from September 2024 to February 2025, provides a framework for public health preparedness and response to the mpox emergency. The current draft, subject to Member State input, outlines the urgent actio...
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005...
The monkeypox virus (MPXV) clade I epidemic that has been affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC) since November 2023 has recently spread to several other African countries including Burundi, Rwanda,
Uganda and Kenya. The size of these outbreaks could be larger than reported due to un...
Tests diagnostiques pour la détection du virus de la variole simienne (orthopoxvirus simien, ou MPXV)
recommended
Orientations provisoires
The World Health Organization (WHO) African Region website provides comprehensive information on cholera outbreaks across the continent. In 2024, 14 countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and Nigeria, experienced significant outbreaks, with these three nations categoriz...
WHO needs US$ 87.4 million over 6 months, from September 2024 to February 2025, to work with countries, partners and other stakeholders to stop and contain the current outbreak of mpox.
Download (419.34 KB)
On 14 August 2024, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) determined that the resurgence of Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Te...
Bulletin 11 August 2024
Le Directeur général de l’OMS, le Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a estimé que la recrudescence de variole simienne (mpox) en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) et dans un nombre croissant de pays d’Afrique constituait une urgence de santé publique de portée internationale (USPPI) au t...
Given the circulation of the variant of clade I of mpox virus (MPXV) in the African Region, which is associated in the African Region with sustained transmission and the occurrence of cases in a wider range of age groups, including children, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organiza...
On 13 August 2024, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the ongoing Mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS). This was followed the next day by the World Health Organization (WHO), which extended the alert internationally as a public ...
