A few days ago, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced the launch of an emergency tender to speed up the purchase of vaccines against the Mpox virus.

"The tender aims to ensure the receipt of mpox vaccines for delivery to the most affected countries, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) or the African Centers for Disease Control (CDC)," Unicef announced in a statement quoted by the international press.

According to the UN agency, supply agreements will be set up with manufacturers so that vaccines can be bought and shipped as quickly as possible, once partners have secured the necessary funding and requirements to receive them.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the areas most affected by the disease, more than 18,000 suspected cases of mpox and 629 deaths have been reported this year.