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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Health
Catherine Wambua-Soi

‘We are afraid’: East Africa struggles as mpox spreads amid vaccine delays

A port health officer screens travellers for mpox at Malaba One Stop Border Post, a crossing point between Kenya and Uganda [Brian Ongoro/AFP]

Businesswoman Mary Malisi crosses the border regularly for work. The Kenyan hotel owner buys grain from markets in Uganda for use in her establishment back home in the border town of Malaba.

On both sides of the Kenya-Uganda border, Malaba – which shares one name – is bustling and vibrant, filled with people of different cultures and nationalities constantly passing through.

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