
Mpox Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response
Welcome to the fourteenth issue of our report, “Mpox: Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response.” In the wake of the U.S. health agencies’ communications and foreign aid freezes, we hope to serve as a resource for transparency on emerging outbreaks globally while continuing to provide in-depth analysis of the mpox response. We will provide brief updates on emerging outbreaks with the state of available medical countermeasures and diagnostics needed to effectively respond. Sierra Leone experiences an exponential growth in new mpox cases; Steady decline in mpox cases in previously high-burden countries: Sierra Leone is reporting a surge in clade II mpox cases with over 100 new confirmed cases per day, with hot spots in the Western Area (urban and rural) including the capital of Freetown. There has been high severity…