MONTREAL — A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal urged worldwide governments over the weekend to ramp up resources to…
The plea came as international experts gathered on Sunday to discuss the necessity to avoid reproducing mistakes made during the early HIV response.
Montreal was the initial epicentre of outbreaks in Canada, with about 360 confirmed cases as of July 29. There are now more than 800 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the country.Article content“Part of that has come directly from the Public Health Department but also with the involvement of the community, which has been the key to educating about the importance of the vaccine,” she said.
She stressed the importance of community engagement and having a vaccine response ready to go, but also the need to study the extent of monkeypox transmission.Article content Over 19,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported over the last few months from 78 countries, mostly among men who have sex with other men.
Unlike the numerous companies that made COVID-19 vaccines, Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic is the only maker of the vaccine used against monkeypox.
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