The independent strategic review, now before the Security Council, recognises many of the challenges ahead. But it appears overly sanguine about what can be achieved within a three-year period.
The development of an industry in edible insects such as these mopane caterpillars has been slow.
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The solution to measles outbreaks is deceptively easy: vaccinate more children. This belies the challenges along the path to that solution.
UNICEF carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak.
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The emergency in the DRC shows that despite all these positive changes, the global response to containing Ebola outbreaks is undermined by the lack of health care and public health infrastructure.
Many families in the DRC can’t routinely access preventive services.
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The current outbreak refuses to give in to efforts by an international team of health care workers, armed with vaccines and treatment that did not even exist during previous episodes.
A health worker spreading disinfectant at a health checkpoint in Goma, DRC.
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Nearly everything known about Ebola virus persistence in the reproductive system has resulted from testing semen of West African Ebola virus disease survivors.
Hybrid forms of governance in DRC allow public services to work.
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The DRC’s state and public administration didn’t disappear, but changed: they were being built from the ground up, tailor-made to local actors’ interests.
Residents of Sake in the Democratic Republic of Congo leave their homes to avoid clashes between rebels and government forces.
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CITES’ decision seeks to increase levels of monitoring so that we can be more and better informed about the illegal trade of Mukula and over-harvesting.
A health worker checks people’s temperatures in Goma, DRC.
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Part-time lecturer at the Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University, and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Liberia