The global vaccine group Gavi has ordered 500,000 mpox vaccine doses from the German-Danish company Bavarian Nordic. The UN Children's Fund is to deliver these to affected countries in Africa later this year,

Gavi, the global vaccine group, announced it will purchase 500,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic’s mpox vaccine. This marks Gavi’s first acquisition of the vaccine to aid in combating an outbreak in parts of Africa.

The Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, and Bavarian Nordic announced an Advance Purchase Agreement on Wednesday to secure 500,000 doses of the Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic mpox vaccine for countries in Africa affected by the monkeypox outbreak.