An emergency use listing is used by the organization to support member states that have not authorized an unlicensed vaccine or therapeutic in speeding up the process so they can be administered to the population. According to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the move will enable people in lower-income countries that still haven't approved the vaccines to access them sooner.
“Emergency Use Listing also enables partners including Gavi and UNICEF to procure vaccines for distribution,” he said.
Emergency use listing is the same designation that was used during the COVID-19 pandemic to help member states authorize and distribute the experimental vaccines to the masses.
According to Tedros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently in the midst of a severe monkeypox outbreak, recording 14,000 cases and more than 500 deaths. At least 50 confirmed cases have been reported in nearby countries such as Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi.
The World Health Organization declared monkeypox, which they now refer to as mpox, as a global emergency after it had spread to more than 70 countries in 2022. The declaration was made against the advice of an independent review panel...<<<Read More>>>...
