Author: Office of the Spokesperson

On August 23, Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong – U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy – led a special session of the Foreign Ministry Channel for Global Health Security (FMC) to discuss the global response to the unprecedented surge of Clade I mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa. On August 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern following the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declaration of a Public Health…