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An inclusive response: reaching Batwa communities to combat Ebola

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.

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

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. 

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On the hunt for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Marie-Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire is on the front-lines of the battle against Ebola.

She’s leading the hunt for the virus in the Itipo area in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The communities at risk are spread out over a wide area and the roads are bad. Her team of more than 20 field epidemiologists is using mostly motorcycles to get around.

Marie-Roseline Belizaire said “We have to go sometimes as far as 80 km from the coordination base, so in a day we can do 160 km.”

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New Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo

8 May 2018 News Release Geneva/Brazzaville/Kinshasa The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Bikoro in Equateur Province today (8 May 2018). The outbreak declaration occurred after laboratory results confirmed two cases of EVD.
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Le Ministre de la Santé Publique a reçu à Kinshasa la délégation conjointe inter-ins...

KINSHASA, 28 septembre - Le Ministre de la Santé Publique, Dr Oly Ilunga Kalenga, a reçu en présence du Représentant de l’OMS en RDC, le Dr Allarangar Yokouidé, une mission conjointe inter-institutions comprenant les parties-prenantes impliquées dans la lutte contre la tuberculose et le VIH, en visite en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) du 27 septembre au 6 octobre 2017.

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DR Congo: Six months into the year, humanitarian actors struggle to scale up respons...

Kinshasa, 7 July 2017: With half of its 26 provinces affected by armed violence, ethnic conflict, diseases and natural disasters, all this within a volatile regional context and amid historically low levels of funding, the first six months of 2017 have proven that the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains an unrelenting humanitarian crisis that is having a suffocating impact on millions of people.

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Une aide à La décentralisation en RDC

Le Plan National de Développement Sanitaire en RDC a été finalisé le 31 Mars 2016 et adopté quatre mois plus tard par le Conseil de Ministres, présidé par le Premier Ministre Augustin Matata Ponyo. Un des objectifs les plus pressants du nouveau PNDS, élaboré avec l’appui de l’OMS, est la décentralisation : un transfert des responsabilités, des compétences et des ressources au niveau provincial.
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WHO declares an end to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Brazzaville/Kinshasa, 2 July 2017 – Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The announcement comes 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus) after the last confirmed Ebola patient in the affected Bas-Uélé province tested negative for the disease for the second time. Enhanced surveillance in the country will continue, as well as strengthening of preparedness and readiness for Ebola outbreaks.

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