EAC deploys experts to combat mpox outbreak

2nd November 2024

This is the first time, EAC is operationalising its Rapidly Deployable Expert (RDE) pool in response to an international public health emergency due to the spreading Mpox virus disease outbreak.

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The deployments for the Mpox outbreak follow a formal request from the Provincial Ministry of Health of South Kivu Province, DRC, to the SEEG. (File photo)

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To support health efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi, the East African Community (EAC) on Friday announced dispatching skilled regional emergency experts through three

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