African health authorities want to not restrict travel through Mpox – IMER News

The Africa CDC director called on the world to work in solidarity for the continent and not to promote false information about Mpox.

Fabian Vega

To prevent stigma Mpox prevent people from traveling foreign to Africa, Jane Kaseyadirector of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from Africa, work was requested association y loyalty face a crisis which may now be twofold. With the amount of misinformation which, he warned, could divide him through sociodigital networksit is inclusive media.

“We can create fear, we can create stigma. When they had Mpox in 2022 on other continents, people said that Mpox is a disease of gay people.

“We need to be clear. To get Mpox, not only through sexual transmission, any contact with someone who has the disease can also cause the disease. “I clearly ask our partners to stop thinking about a travel ban against Africa, which will bring us back to unfair treatment during the Covid period and will not help the world move forward. “

“Don’t punish Africa. We hear from here and there that they want to impose a travel ban (…) We need solidarity, we need to provide adequate support, this vaccine is expensive.”

At the first Mpox outbreak, Africa was not vaccinated

During a special press conference about motley outbreak (Mpox) and others health emergency on the African continent, Kaseya called the world Don’t close your borders. And don’t forget Africa Within the vaccination plans, which he brought forward, it could start in the coming days. This is to start spreading it and get people wanting to get vaccinated.

“We have to be supportive. In 2022, the vaccine was invented and we didn’t get this vaccine. “Yes, these vaccines gave good results in stopping Mpox in Europe and the United States, but we need to create appropriate studies in our context to know maybe how they can help us, even redistribution doses. “

The director CDC Africa remember the authorized biology for the World Health Organization (WHO), safe and working for Mpox variants. However, he asked to give permission to the studies in Africa continue:

“The vaccine is safe, the vaccine is useful. But we have to continue the investigations. “

Kaseya urged people not to share false information (fake news). Or inaccurate data that may be generated misinformation or confuse people about this disease:

“We don’t have the option to work together, we have to work together.”

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