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Claude MABOWA, a successful baccalaureate candidate and Ebola survivor

Surviving Ebola and passing final school exams while in treatment isolation: Now bring on the future

Days before the most important exams of his life – the exams that…
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Dear parents and neighbours – A young mother tells her story of Ebola denial and then gratitude for treatment

Dear parents and neighbours – A young mother tells her story of Ebola denial and then gratitude for treatment

When 33-year-old Kanyere Vwatire first left a health facility, it was…
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Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

An emergency vaccination point for children offers a mother relief against measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

As her bus approached the town of Masi Manimba, Rosette Mboma heard a…
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Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

A doctor takes you to the tough and joy-filled days in the Ebola battle in Goma

Since December 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other…
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Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

WHO and partners launch emergency vaccination campaign to help contain world’s largest measles outbreak

With the world’s largest and fastest-moving measles epidemic…
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Benediction, suffering from Cholera, & his mother (GOMA), Photo: WHO/Savage S.

​Ebola, cholera and measles: Triple threats to the poorest communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kasika is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Goma, the largest…
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Benediction, suffering from Cholera, & his mother (GOMA), Photo: WHO/Savage S.

​Ebola, cholera and measles: Triple threats to the poorest communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kasika is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Goma, the largest…
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Benediction, suffering from Cholera, & his mother (GOMA), Photo: WHO/Savage S.

​Ebola, cholera and measles: Triple threats to the poorest communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kasika is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Goma, the largest…
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Participants representing the 11 countries

Zambia hosts the first Regional Training Workshop on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Barriers Assessment Methodology (AHSBA)

The WHO Regional Office for Africa in collaboration with WHO…
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Five women with their babies in Beni after surviving Ebola while pregnant

Mothers survive Ebola while pregnant against the odds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

“I put my feet on the ground and wiggled my toes. It felt strange to…
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