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WHO and partners are working with more than 4 000 risk communicators

Youth speaking to youth about dodging bullets and Ebola in Democratic Republic of th...

03 April 2019

Zoé and the WHO team of young risk communicators have been working as part of the response to the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu.

Community engagement and social mobilization with EVD key messages to sensitize people of Butsili area, in Beni - North Kivu - WHO - Eugene Kabambi

WHO reaffirms commitment to Democratic Republic of the Congo as Ebola outbreak nears...

24 March 2019

WHO calls on international community to join urgent push to end outbreak

Kinshasa: No rest for a mobile unit pursuing the end of sleeping sickness

07 February 2019

A WHO expert checking names as the Health Ministry mobile team's surveillance officers set up a screening activity in rural Jeune Foire village in the Lutendele health area of Kinshasa. WHO/Eugene Kabambi

EBOLA - Hope is at the end of the tunnel in Mangina - (East of the DRC)

17 August 2018

Mangina (North Kivu), 17 August 2018. "I was under a lot of stress and experienced insomnia mixed with nightmare all night," says Sister Darlène Mwasi, a registered nurse at the Mangina referral health centre, which is more than 30 kilometres southwest of the town of Beni in North Kivu.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom and WHO Regional Director Dr Matshidiso Moeti visiting Ebola treatment centre in Mangina

WHO calls for free and secure access in responding to Ebola outbreak in the Democrat...

12 August 2018

WHO’s global and African regional leadership saw first-hand the complexities of implementing the Ebola response in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in visits with the Ministry of Health officials to affected areas over the last two days. While this is the country’s 10th Ebola outbreak, it is the first time that the disease has struck a densely populated active conflict zone.

Ebola vaccination begins in North Kivu

09 August 2018

8 August 2018, Mangina/Geneva - The Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today announced the launch of Ebola vaccinations for high risk populations in North Kivu province.

The vaccinations have begun just one week after the announcement of a second outbreak of Ebola this year in the country. A total of 44 cases have been reported so far, of which 17 have been confirmed.

Work has begun to prepare ring vaccination in the Mangina health area, 30km from the town of Beni.

Ministry of Health, WHO and partners conduct first mission to evaluate Ebola outbrea...

03 August 2018

The Ministy of Health (MOH) conducted a joint mission on 2 August with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners to evaluate the situation in the Mangina health area, where the majority of the cluster of new Ebola cases have been detected.

Ebola outbreak in DRC ends: WHO calls for international efforts to stop other deadly...

24 July 2018

Forty-two days after the last confirmed case of Ebola, the 9th outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is declared over. WHO deployed more than 300 experts to support the response.

Batwa Chief Ilinga Bopope Lopaka Lomba with his grandchildren and other family members

An inclusive response: reaching Batwa communities to combat Ebola

06 July 2018

6 July 2018

Dr Bijoux Sambu Fiti is part of the surveillance team working in Itipo, a small community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has been battling Ebola since May. Her job is to go deep into the forest around Itipo to seek out sick people in Batwa villages potentially suffering from undiagnosed cases of Ebola. The Batwa, which is the plural term for Twa people, are hunter-gatherers living primarily off the forest.

Bringing Ebola vaccine to remote communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo

27 June 2018

It’s been nearly twenty years since the residents of Bosolo village in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo have seen a car.

“Bosolo is a village which is about 25 km from Iboko centre, but on this road 25 km can take two or more hours to travel,” said Dr Ismaila Ibrahim Mamane Sani, Co-coordinator of WHO’s Ring Vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Democratic Republic of Congo News

6 July 2018