Friday, 06 September 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY
- The global SPRP has been updated to include inputs from WHO Member States and to reflect further planning done at the continent level, with governments, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), and other partners.
- The updated plan is fully aligned with the Joint Africa CDC and WHO *Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa*, which was launched on Friday, 6 September.
- The plan covers the six-month period of September 2024-February 2025, detailing the response by international actors at the global, regional and country level, including by WHO, partners including Africa CDC, communities, and researchers, among others.
- The funding requirement of US$ 290 million is for the international support to national responses. This requirement excludes the cost of procuring and/or distributing estimated to be 4 million vaccines required for the first phase of response to stop the outbreak.
- The strategy, plan and resource requirement will be reviewed and adjusted quarterly after an operational reveiw and based on the evolving epidemiological situation.
Overview
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 SPRP was developed with input from Member State and partners and outlines the urgent actions needed at global, regional, and national levels.
The WHO Director-General determined that the mpox upsurge was a public health emergency of international concern on 14 August 2024, given the detection and rapid spread of a new clade of mpox in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond.
The SPRP emphasizes surveillance, research, equitable access to medical countermeasures, and community empowerment to respond to this global emergency. The initial six-month operation will focus on controlling acute outbreaks of human-to-human transmission, with an estimated 4,000 cases per week and an estimated budget of US$ 290 million for international support to national mpox responses.
Mpox global strategic preparedness and response plan (who.int)
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