The World Health Organization has said that countries need to work more together to stop the rapidly spreading outbreak of monkeypox, \u201cno matter the nationality, skin color or religion of the affected population.”<\/p>\n
Speaking from Dakar, Senegal,\u00a0WHO\u00a0Assistant Director-General for Emergencies Ibrahima Soce Fall\u00a0said\u00a0that \u201cwe have been working on\u00a0monkeypox\u00a0in Africa for several years, but nobody was interested\u201d.<\/p>\n
Once referred to as a \u201cneglected tropical disease,\u201d he said that WHO had been working on Monkeypox with very few resources.<\/p>\n
However, once northern countries began getting affected by the disease \u201cthe world reacted\u201d.<\/p>\n
Dr Fall said it was the same with the Zika virus and we have to stop this discrimination.<\/p>\n
On 23 July, the WHO declared the spread of the virus to be a public health emergency of international concern \u2013 the organization\u2019s highest level of alert.<\/p>\n
In this way, WHO aims to enhance coordination, the cooperation of nations, and global solidarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The World Health Organization has said that countries need to work more together to stop the rapidly spreading outbreak of monkeypox, \u201cno matter the nationality, skin color or religion of the affected population.” Speaking from Dakar, Senegal,\u00a0WHO\u00a0Assistant Director-General for Emergencies Ibrahima Soce Fall\u00a0said\u00a0that \u201cwe have been working on\u00a0monkeypox\u00a0in Africa for several years, but nobody was interested\u201d. Once referred to as a \u201cneglected tropical disease,\u201d he said that WHO had been working on Monkeypox with very few resources. However, once northern countries began getting affected by the disease \u201cthe world reacted\u201d. Dr Fall said it was the same with the Zika virus and we have to stop this discrimination. On 23 July, the WHO declared the spread of the virus to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":57227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[502,195],"class_list":["post-57419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-monkey-pox","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}