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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.
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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.
Even when cases of measles are detected in clinics, limited diagnostic and communication infrastructure can delay the response.
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.
Nearly everything known about Ebola virus persistence in the reproductive system has resulted from testing semen of West African Ebola virus disease survivors.
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.
More than two out of three displaced people are not refugees, but remain within their own country.
Two deadly viruses are ravaging the DRC. Why are we only hearing about one of them?
Local communities are wary of the sudden arrival of outsiders and of their interest in regions where there’s been violence for years
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.
Epidemics can have massive social ramifications where prohibitions are imposed on travel, socio-cultural events and schooling.
Timing is everything when it comes to making a decision about declaring a disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
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The Ebola vaccine alone is not enough to deal with the outbreak in the DRC.
Bad governance and political manoeuvring increase the risk of communal conflicts
Interventions to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DR Congo often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes
The DRC president’s direct involvement can rally people who have previously doubted the reality of the outbreak.
Uganda is the testing ground for a new vaccine that could work on more strains of the Ebola virus and other haemorrhagic fevers.
Artisanal and industrial mining have a different impact on local conflict in eastern Congo.
A review of research on both the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, found less than 1% of published research discussed gender issues.
Ebola has now now spread to Goma – a city of 2m people.
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