17.12.2024
Mpox outbreak in Africa - are countries in the Global South again receiving too little vaccine?
Foto von National Institute of Allergy and IInfectious Diseases

Aktionsbündnis gegen AIDS - Action against AIDS Germany "The Mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding countries shows - as during the corona pandemic - the unequal access to vaccines worldwide. Vaccines exist, but the affected countries cannot afford the vaccine due to high prices and are dependent on donations. On the occasion of International Human Rights Day on 10 December, various German non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are therefore calling for the German government to make the human right to health a top priority and not to focus unilaterally on the interests of the pharmaceutical industry in global health policy."