The public-private alliance which co-funds vaccine purchases for low-income countries, said it will spend up to $50 million on the plan, which includes the transportation, delivery and costs of administering the vaccines.
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The approval, known as a prequalification, comes as a new type of the virus spreads from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the current outbreak began in early 2023, to several neighboring countries.
Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the affected countries, said a government spokesperson on Monday.
A Phase II study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that a dose-sparing, intradermal regimen of Bavarian Nordic’s intradermal mpox vaccine Jynneos (modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic) can match the antibody response elicited by the standard-dose regimen.
Yesterday the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to recommend that individuals 18 years and older with certain risk factors should receive two doses of Jynneos.
CEPI will provide funding of up to $90 million to support the development of vaccine candidates which is based on BioNTech’s mRNA technology.