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Nigeria Begins Mpox Vaccination Program After Delays

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  • #Diseases & conditions
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  • #Nigeria
Nigeria Begins Mpox Vaccination Program After Delays
story
NOV 2024
Above: A vial of the mpox vaccine is seen during the launch of the vaccination campaign at the General Hospital of Goma, DR Congon, on Oct. 5, 2024. Image copyright: Aubin Mukoni/AFP via Getty Images
story last updated NOV 2024

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

With the support of the international community, Nigeria and other countries affected by Africa's deadliest mpox surge on record are able to administer vaccines against the disease — at least to specific groups — and control the epidemic. There's still a long way to go, but the future looks much brighter now than during the 2022 outbreak.

Nature

Establishment-critical narrative

Despite the WHO having twice raised the alarm internationally over the threat posed by mpox, not enough has been done to tackle this crisis. Some have even blamed "vaccine nationalism" — the inequity by which nations exploit their relative wealth to reserve vaccines in advance of their availability to the developing world — undermining the efficacy of any potential global response. Even the current vaccine rollout is limited to only the highest risk groups, rather than the broader population.

Al Jazeera

Metaculus Prediction


Establishment split

CRITICAL

PRO

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