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HIGHLIGHTS
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) continues to support the following activities to prevent, detect, and respond to the Mpox outbreak with a focus on Points of Entry (PoEs), key congregation points along mobility corridors and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps and other IDPs settings. During the reporting period, IOM’s key achievements included:
- Continued to lead on the PoE and Cross Border Coordination sub-pillar under the Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa coordination structure, including PoE Technical Working Group (TWG) meetings.
- On 1 November, IOM presented its work on responding to Mpox in IDPs camps and other hard to reach hot spots in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), highlighting the importance of protection of vulnerable communities.
- Supported over 100 PoEs in coordination with government officials to strengthen PoE capacity in Burundi, DRC, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
- Supported more than 16 health zones in DRC, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zimbabwe with Community Event-Based Surveillance (CEBS).
- Conducted over 1,280 health screenings in Guinea and no alerts were generated, bringing the cumulative total of health screenings to over 1,056,500 (including 27 alerts) in DRC, Guinea, South Sudan, and Uganda.
- Trained nearly 165 Community Health Workers (CHWs), and other community members on Mpox awareness and risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) in DRC and Mozambique. Over 310 government and border officials (health and non-health personnel) were trained in DRC on RCCE. Nearly 30 government officials in South Sudan were trained on IOM’s Health, Border and Mobility Management (HBMM) Framework, bringing the cumulative total of trained officials by IOM to over 2,860 individuals in eight countries.
- Reached more than 3,600 people with Mpox awareness messages in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. IOM DRC, South Sudan and Uganda continued to provide Mpox awareness to travellers and cross-border communities, bringing the cumulative total of individuals reached by RCCE to over 52,200 in six countries.
- Funding for IOM’s response remains critically low and additional funds are urgently needed to maintain IOM’s essential support to cross-border coordination and national responses at PoEs at the regional level and in all countries affected by Mpox as well as other disease outbreaks including Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) and Cholera.