{"id":7442,"date":"2024-08-27T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2024-08-27T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:30:33","slug":"who-launches-plan-to-stanch-mpox-transmission-and-says-the-virus-can-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/who-launches-plan-to-stanch-mpox-transmission-and-says-the-virus-can-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO launches plan to stanch mpox transmission and says the virus can be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/launches-plan-stanch-mpox-transmission-virus-stopped-113148303\">Abc News<\/a> The U.N. health agency has launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission. The U.N. health agency on Monday launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission, including ramping up staffing in affected countries and boosting surveillance, prevention and response strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization said it expects the plan from September through February next year will require $135 million in funding and aims to improve fair access to vaccines, notably in African countries hardest hit by the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe mpox outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries can be controlled, and can be stopped,\u201d said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency is \u201csignificantly scaling up staff\u201d in affected countries, it said. In mid-August, WHO classified the current mpox outbreak as a global health emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Monday, German government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said Germany is donating 100,000 doses of mpox vaccine to affected countries from stocks held by its military, German news agency dpa reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/launches-plan-stanch-mpox-transmission-virus-stopped-113148303\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"fGA  BHShtiA vbE\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abc News The U.N. health agency has launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission. The U.N. health agency on Monday launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission, including ramping up staffing in affected countries and boosting surveillance, prevention and response strategies. The World Health Organization said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeypox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7443,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}