50,000 Doses of Mpox Vaccines Donated by the United States Arrived Today in Kinshasa

Kinshasa, DRC– On Tuesday, September 10, 2024 , 50,000 doses of mpox vaccines donated by the United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Kinshasa. The United States was the first nation to commit to a donation of vaccines. The Minister of Health, Samuel Kamba, signed an agreement on September 6, 2024 that allowed the manufacturer to ship the U.S. donated vaccines to Kinshasa within days.

This donation is part of a larger mpox response plan from the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) to mitigate the current mpox outbreak. Since the beginning of this outbreak in late 2023, USAID and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have supported the DRC government with the coordination and funding of an initial response plan. USAID has already committed more than $10 million, supporting risk communication and community engagement, surveillance and detection, lab strengthening, care, and treatment.

The United States government will continue to support the mpox response plan through its key partner organizations in line with and coordinated by the Public Health Emergency Operations Center in the DRC.