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APPEAL STATUS
- USD - 27.8 MILLION TOTAL FUNDING REQUESTED
- USD 681,000 (2%) RECEIVED
- 2,860,000 PEOPLE TARGETED USD 681,000 (2%) RECEIVED
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) and key congregation points along mobility corridors. 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)(1) meetings.
- Supported over 60 PoEs and cross-border areas with government officials to strengthen PoE capacity in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Conducted population mobility mapping (PMM)(2) exercises in DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda, covering 15 districts to assess population mobility dynamics and patterns to identify priority areas for public health emergency preparedness and response.
- Over 24 districts in DRC, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zimbabwe were supported with community event-based surveillance (CEBS) by community health workers (CHWs) and generated over 40 alerts in Uganda.
- Conducted over 7,800 health screenings in Guinea and Uganda, and generated over 20 alerts in Uganda, bringing the cumulative total of health screenings to over 1,064,300 in DRC, Guinea, South Sudan, and Uganda.
- Over 1,000 government officials were trained on PoE response for Mpox and other disease outbreaks in DRC, Mozambique, and migration and health in Guinea, bringing the cumulative total of trained individuals by IOM to over 3,900 in nine countries.
- More than 24,680 people were reached by IOM with Mpox awareness messages and sensitized in DRC, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, bringing the cumulative total of individuals reached by risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) to over 76,800 in eight countries.
- Almost USD 20,600 worth of medical supplies was procured in Burundi including Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) supplies, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Mapped population mobility at point of entry/exit at PoEs for Mpox and Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) response in seven countries.
- IOM released Global Crisis Response Plan for Mpox Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa 2025 appealing for USD 46 million to support its response to prevent and control Mpox, targeting 3.8 million individuals including migrants, internally displaced persons (IDPs), highly mobile populations, and cross-border communities.
- 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 MVD and Cholera.
- TWG members are IOM., Africa CDC, WHO, IFRC, UNHCR and will plan to include other members.
- Population mobility mapping (PMM) is a set of tools to map population mobility dynamics and characteristics adapted by IOM Mi gration Health Division from Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) methodology, notably Flow Monitoring. PMM is a population movement mapping approach that aims to inform public health interventions through the analysis of the mobility routes and patterns of all travellers including highly mobile populations, migrants, IDPs, refugees, and characteristics of human mobility within a certain geographical space.