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The Ebola epidemic in DRC is now in its 10th month

United Nations strengthens Ebola response in Democratic Republic of the Congo

23 May 2019

The United Nations announced today measures to strengthen its response and end the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Une vaccinatrice donnant le vaccin oral polio bivalent à un enfant - dans la zone de santé de Kasa-vubu, à Kinshasa. OMS/Eugene Kabambi

Pour lutter contre la résurgence des cas de polio dérivée d'une souche vaccinale (PV...

20 April 2019

L'OMS invite le gouvernement de la RDC et les partenaires à accélérer la mise en œuvre du plan de renforcement de la surveillance.

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

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

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.

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