It’s no surprise that nearly two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) triumphantly declared the end of Mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — as a global public health emergency, we find ourselves in a worse position today. Once again, the WHO has done the bare minimum. Instead of challenging how the world’s media and public health officials frame and categorise Mpox, the WHO has maintained the stigma of Africans as vectors of diseases, despite transmission and reporting now being global. And contrary to the public health brainiacs in Geneva, changing the name of the disease from monk…