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Central African health workers fighting mpox face lack of vaccines and medication

The mpox virus spread globally earlier this year, bringing fears of another pandemic. Many western countries fought off the outbreak with treatments and vaccines. But in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the virus remains endemic, as it has for decades. Special correspondent Benedict Moran and video journalist Jorgen Samso report.

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Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends to Save Lives

Download logoNathalie looked upon her convalescent baby, hope slowly wiping away distress. Her 12-month-old boy had been admitted to St Luc Hospital in

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INSIGHT | In Africa's monkeypox outbreak, sickness and death go undetected

At a village clinic in central Congo, separated from the world by a tangle of waterways and forests, six-year-old Angelika Lifafu grips her dress and screams while nurses in protective suits pick at one of hundreds of boils that trouble her delicate skin.

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Desperate DRC patients suffer without shots in monkeypox outbreak

More than 130 have died in poor African countries where many lack quick access to health facilities or are unaware of the dangers

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Clinical trial to evaluate antiviral drug for monkeypox begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A clinical trial to evaluate the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, in adults and children with monkeypox has begun in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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