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Posted on July 31, 2022, 4:47 pm
Updated July 31, 2022, 4:48 p.m
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A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal are calling on world governments to increase resources to deal with monkeypox epidemics.
The call comes as international experts gathered earlier today to discuss the need to avoid repeating mistakes made during the early HIV response.
Dr. Meg Doherty, director of the World Health Organization’s global programs on HIV, hepatitis and STIs, told reporters that an equitable approach is critical to ensure that tools are available not only to richer countries, but also in Africa, where monkeypox is traditionally found.
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More than 19,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in the past few months from 78 countries, mostly among men who have sex with men, with 803 cases in Canada as of July 29.
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Keletso Makofane, a public health researcher at Harvard University, called the global response to monkeypox “worse than the initial response to HIV,” saying there was already enough information about the virus to contain it.
Meanwhile, Marina Klein, research director of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Chronic Viral Diseases at McGill University in Montreal, said more studies are needed to understand the extent of the disease’s transmission.
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