Mpox 2022: Lived experience, stigma and coping
February 28, 2025
Mpox is a disease that is caused by infection with a virus called MPXV. There are two major genetic groups (clades) of MPXV, clade I (formerly known as Central African or Congo basin clade) and clade II (formerly known as West African clade). In the last few years, two outbreaks made the news, one in 2022, caused by …
Mpox, again
August 19, 2024
On 14 August 2024 the WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared that an upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constituted a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). This was the second time mpox had been declared a PHEIC. The last …