In the last two years, the unrest ravaging eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited resources and land with equally vulnerable populations. “We heard […]
Country and Region: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ebola: New strategies at work
The tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which struck the eastern part of the country between 2018 and early 2020, went on to become the largest in the country’s history. The eleventh outbreak, currently underway in Équateur province, in the country’s west, looks quite different from its predecessor: it proceeds at […]
DRC: Responding to the new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province
On June 1, 2020, a new Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak was declared in Équateur province, western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s eleventh recorded epidemic. Declared while DRC was still grappling with the tenth Ebola epidemic in the country’s northeast, and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this new Ebola outbreak has already spread to […]
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COVID-19: ‘If they don’t have food to eat, why would they have soap?’
By David Walubila Mwinyi, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Medical Data Supervisor in South Kivu, Demcratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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DRC: COVID-19 must not jeopardize the fight against deadly diseases
Overshadowed by outbreaks of Ebola last year and by COVID-19 today, the measles epidemic in DRC continues to kill children every day.
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DRC: Health promotion during COVID-19
While being close to a post-Ebola epidemic period, DRC begins to see signs of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ebola: World’s second-worst outbreak nears end in DRC
By Karline Kleijer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Emergencies Today as the world is focused on the Corona Virus pandemic, the world’s second-worst Ebola outbreak is finally nearing its end. Over the past months the number of Ebola cases finally dwindled. Having lasted over 18 months and resulting in the deaths of over […]
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Reflections after the fire: Ebola in DRC
In the wake of an armed attack on an Ebola treatment centre in Democratic Republic of Congo, aid workers were pushed to radically rethink their approach to the disease, says Trish Newport, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “We’re being attacked in the Ebola treatment centre!” This is what I heard […]
‘People were dying’: Witnessing first-hand the deadly impact of measles in places with low vaccine coverage
Right now, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the few organizations on the ground responding to the world’s largest currently active outbreak of measles – which has already killed more than 6,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and continues to ravage different parts of the country. Nearly 75 per cent […]
MSF 10 monumental moments
Here’s a look at just a few of the humanitarian emergencies that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to over the last 10 years.
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