Gay men should "for the moment" reduce partners and reconsider sleeping with new people in order to try to halt the global spread of monkeypox, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said last 27 July.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a press conference in Geneva that 98 percent of the more than 18,000 recent monkeypox cases reported to the agency had been among men who sleep with other men. He urged members of this community to take steps to protect themselves amid the public health emergency.