I think that Aliko Dangote should hencefore fund a David Hundeyin award for truth and integrity in fighting for the interests of Africa

African nations must strategically invest in home grown solutions to the clearly growing risk of epidemic outbreak amid increasing urbanization and encroachment on virgin ecosystems Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Jean Kaseya Dr. Peter A Singer, OC CEPI WHO African Region

Multilateralism or unilateralism for global pandemic response?

Alas, how many times does Africa have to sound the alarm to the entire world before realizing that our lives are our own affairs?

Clade 1b MPOX disease is more infectious and severe. That is why it should be arrested at the epicentre, before it takes takes on the entire world. All of us must ensure the people of the great lakes region of East Africa get all the necessary help there is, to do so.

Sometimes—a nation, a people chose to listen to what makes them happy and comfortable, that which makes them forget the pain of their past? Question is—does that shield one from reality, burying ones head in the sand like an ostritch?

So—in one day, Kenya and Gabon report MPOX cases originating from Uganda? What does that tell you? Use your head right and dont sensualize the facts or attack the messenger. tribune.com.pk/story/2490478/…

….but it was an open question how well they will work with the variant of the virus now circulating in Congo’ ⁦Placide Mbala⁩

Fine—its true COVID19 made people so resentful of anything requiring them to give up their liberties and freedoms in order to control an infectious disease. But can we stand the pain?

What Africa needs to do in response to the outbreak of clade 1b MPXV - Speaking of Medicine and Health ⁦Madhu Pai, MD, PhD⁩ ⁦Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus⁩ ⁦Jean Kaseya⁩ ⁦Dr Matshidiso Moeti⁩ ⁦Dr. Peter A Singer, OC⁩ speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2024/08/26/wha…

Happy to say, the Global Health EDCTP3 partnership ⁦Horizon Europe⁩ is funding our project to decipher host and viral determinants of MPOX, dubbed ‘DECIPHER-MPOX’ ⁦EDCTP⁩ ⁦Dr Jean Marie Vianney Habarugira, PhD⁩ ⁦NICD⁩ ⁦Makerere University⁩ ⁦Laboratoire Rodolphe Mérieux Inrb Goma⁩ ⁦McMaster University⁩

The most important outcomes we can achieve from the #AfricaCDC|#WHO|#CEPI/#NIH MPOX RnI conference going on in #Kinshasa are two (a) a framework for validating Dx, + (b) protocols for evaluating effectiveness of Rx & Vx with EUL. All rest to undergo due diligence as per #WHO SRA

Joined a panel of other scientists Africa CDC World Health Organization (WHO) CEPI NIH CDC FIND to deliberate strategy to deploying diagnostics for #MPOX in #Kinshasa today

Africa’s biggest hinderance is how to mobilize its resources to tackle its problems? Why lazily beg for countermeasures we are not even sure will work against clade 1b when we can develop targeted ones? Madhu Pai, MD, PhD Dr. Peter A Singer, OC Jean Kaseya Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus preprints.org/manuscript/202…