About 800,000 doses of MPOX vaccine were promised in African countries, working to seal the disastrous outbreaks According to reporting by Politico,

Around 800,000 doses were part of a donation promised under the Biden administration, which was to give more than 1 million doses. Overall, the US, the European Union and Japan collectively promised to provide 5 million doses to about a dozen African countries. The US has sent only 91,000 doses so far, and only 220,000 still has enough shelf life to make it. The remaining are ending within six months, which made them disqualified for shipping.

Yap Moom, a deputy accident manager of an Africa CDC, said, “A vaccine should be sent to a country, we require at least six months before the end of the end that the vaccine may come to a good condition and allow the country to apply vaccination.”

Politico, along with the brutal cuts of the Trump administration, along with foreign aid programs, the destruction of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) connected the vaccines with timely shortage of shipments, which administered the support programs that administered the support programs.