International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision
Body that manages global emergency vaccine stockpiles.
The International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision opened a permanent mpox vaccine stockpile on 27 August 2026, a week after releasing 70,000 Ervebo doses to DR Congo for its Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic.
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Timeline for International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision
Launched a permanent mpox vaccine stockpile on 27 August
Pandemics and Biosecurity: Madagascar logs half July's mpox casesReleased the doses in August
Pandemics and Biosecurity: Mentioned in: WHO: 2,000 Congolese workers get ErveboBackground
The International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision manages the world's emergency vaccine stockpiles. It holds stockpiles for meningitis, yellow fever, Cholera and Ebola, and since 27 August 2026 for mpox. For Cholera it approved 71 million oral vaccine doses for 2025.
In DR Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic the group released 70,000 doses of Ervebo on 20 August 2026. Ervebo is licensed only against the Zaire species, so WHO is giving the doses to frontline workers first while a planned trial tests whether they protect against Bundibugyo. About 2,000 workers had been vaccinated by 10 September, WHO said.
MSF's BRAVO study, launched on 19 September, aims to give Ervebo to roughly 20,000 frontline staff across Ituri and North Kivu. WHO still expects the randomised ring trial, a separate effort, to begin in October or November.
The group opened a permanent mpox stockpile
On 27 August 2026 the group launched a permanent stockpile of mpox vaccine at WHO's Regional Committee for Africa in Addis Ababa. UNICEF procures the doses and GAVI pays for them. Countries could request doses from September. The stockpile replaces the ad hoc allocation system built in 2024, when doses were shared out case by case.
Madagascar, with 3,436 confirmed cases by 16 August, is likely to make the first big call on it. The island accounted for more than half of July's confirmed mpox cases worldwide, and only 111,508 people there had received a dose. WHO blames stockouts and failing cold chains for an outbreak it says is not yet under control. WHO's standing mpox recommendations, issued under the International Health Regulations, now run until August 2027 after an extension.
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