Sierra Leone, July 8 -- Sierra Leone is presently experiencing an outbreak of mpox, with an average of 29 new cases each day as of the last week of June.
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is responding in Freetown, the country's hotspot zone, as well as in Kenema, Bombali, and Tonkolili districts in the eastern and northern provinces of the country. Below, Agnes Dama, MSF's medical referent for the mpox response, tells us about her daily work and the challenges of treating this stigmatized disease.
Mpox is not new to Sierra Leone. This is the fourth time that we are recording cases. The current outbreak is hitting the Western Area Rural district and the capital city the most; these are densely populated areas w...