US Donating 1M Mpox Vaccine Doses, At Least $500M To African Countries To Support Outbreak Response

Reuters (9/24, Hunnicutt, Steenhuysen) reports President “Biden announced on Tuesday the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak.” According to Reuters, “the expectation is that the new U.S.-donated doses will be of the Bavarian Nordic vaccine known as Jynneos in the United States, and many will come from a U.S. stockpile.” One US “official said the administration expects Gavi, a public-private alliance which co-funds vaccine purchases for low-income countries, to distribute the donated vaccines.”