Health Issues
Ebola’s Fastest Spread on Record
The outbreak is centred on areas were people cross borders daily, making cross-border surveillance essential. Ugochi Daniels, Deputy Director General for Operations at the International…
Global Ebola Cases Top 1,000 As UN Races to Reach DR Congo’s Most Vulnerable
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine Russell, identified the structural reasons for children’s vulnerability. “Children are especially vulnerable because they depend on caregivers and cannot distance themselves…
Ebola in DR Congo: One Month On, Scaled-Up Response Remains Insufficient
When a suspected case is reported in a community, an investigation team is immediately dispatched. If the alert is confirmed, the patient is referred to…
Uganda Contains Ebola, but Cross-border Risks Remain
The World Health Organisation’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visited Uganda as part of a regional assessment mission and described the country’s response as robust. Officials…
Ebola’s Untreatable Strain Spreads Through Eastern Congo
The outbreak, officially declared on May 15th, is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, one of the rarest and most poorly understood variants of the Ebola…
Faith, Fear and Ebola in Eastern Congo
Progress has been made in recent weeks. Testing capacity has expanded from roughly 40 to 800 daily tests, allowing results to be returned within 24…
Catching Up with Ebola in the Congo
The outbreak has also crossed borders. Uganda has reported 15 confirmed cases and one death. A Congolese resident who travelled through the United Arab Emirates…
Lebanon’s Hospitals Under Fire
WHO has verified nearly 190 attacks on healthcare facilities in Lebanon in just three months, killing 128 healthcare workers and injuring 332 others; 11 attacks…
In Congo, Four Nurses Walk Free as Ebola Fight Intensifies
The outbreak is concentrated in Ituri province, as well as North Kivu and South Kivu. In Bunia, the likely epicentre and capital of Ituri, WHO…
Ten Years On, Attacks on Health in Conflict Are Getting Worse
Human Rights Watch is calling on all governments to improve data collection on attacks on health, integrate respect for international law into military doctrine and…
Ebola And the Limits of Preparedness
WHO has been working alongside the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and other partners in both countries to contain the outbreak and support…
A Rare Strain, a Familiar Challenge
The confirmed case count stands at 51, but that number understates the situation considerably. The World Health Organisation has tallied nearly 600 suspected cases and…
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