Articles on Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
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Projects that support Congolese women who have survived gender violence often promote ideal notions of how men and women should behave.
Stephen Morrision/EPA
Yap Boum, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. What does this mean for the outbreak response?
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
EPA/Michael Kooren
Our work represents the first assessment of what social and economic factors are connected to environmental degradation across the entire African continent.
Rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army making their way to a camp in southern Sudan. The group forcibly recruits children.
EPA/Stephen Morrison
Abdhalah Ziraba, African Population and Health Research Center
Kenya appears prepared for Ebola outbreaks, but a lot more can be done.
Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, Uganda.
MELANIE ATUREEBE/EPA
Ebola is difficult to contain because of human social and behavioural factors. But it can be if 100% of the infected people’s contacts are identified and monitored.
Burial of Ebola victims in the DRC.
EPA/HUGH KINSELLA CUNNINGHAM
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