US donates 50,000 Mpox vaccine doses to DRC amid outbreak

On Tuesday, the US donated 50,000 doses of mpox vaccine to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help combat an ongoing outbreak. US Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn emphasized the importance of vaccines in controlling the disease and highlighted the long-standing health partnership between the US and DRC, which includes efforts against malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and Ebola.

This donation follows a recent shipment of nearly 100,000 doses from…