The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called for 10 million vaccine doses by 2025 to respond to the multicountry outbreak of mpox, but due to lower incomes and bureaucratic hurdles, the continent must rely on donations for now.
To follow which countries and companies have pledged doses to Africa and which nations will receive them, CFR’s Chloe Searchinger and TGH Data Visuals Editor Allison Krugman have launched a new tracker to identify mpox vaccine donations.
Staying in Africa, Krugman interviews Angela Apeagyei from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) about a new study that analyzed health financing trends and projections in sub-Saharan Africa.
Next, writer and editor Angelica F. Recierdo uses the Netflix documentary The Guardian of the Monarchs to illustrate how violence and illegal deforestation has threatened a delicate ecosystem in Mexico and put human health at risk.
To wrap up the week, Krugman returns with a review of On the Move by Abrahm Lustgarten, a must-read account for anyone interested in how extreme weather events and climate change will shape U.S. migration.
Until next week!—Nsikan Akpan, Managing Editor, and Caroline Kantis, Associate Editor
