As part of a new era for health emergencies on the African continent, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa launched a joint plan for responding to the mpox emergency on the continent on Friday. It’s a six-month plan that aims to mobilize nearly $600 million.
It’s the first time the agencies are using one continental coordination team, response plan, budget, and monitoring and evaluation framework in a major health response.
This is part of yearslong efforts for the two organizations to work more cooperatively together. In the past, there have been challenges around duplications of efforts that led to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and confusion.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
