8th ICAN Congress 2020 Preliminary Scientific Programme
NEW RELEASE! Our Congress theme this year is “IPC and Patient Safety”. Our programme will explore the essential role of IPC in in ensuring Patient Safety during Healthcare. Our emphasis will be on the efforts being made to prevent disease transmission in healthcare. The Preliminary Scientific Programme released here To book your place at this […]
WHO Democratic Republic of the Congo – External Situation Report 21 January 2020
From 13 to 19 January 2020, 15 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) were reported from North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The cases were reported from Beni (9 cases) and Mabalako (6 cases) Health Zones and all were linked to a confirmed case in a known chain of […]
Deaths from Democratic Republic of the Congo measles outbreak top 6000
With the death toll from the world’s worst measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surpassing 6000, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for more funding to stop the outbreak. Under the leadership of the DRC Ministry of Health, WHO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and other partner aid agencies vaccinated more […]
The complex logistics of Ebola response
How do you deliver nearly three tons of supplies every day to halt Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) conflict-affected north-eastern region? For the World Health Organization (WHO), a 40-strong operations support and logistics team works almost non-stop to speedily dispatch materials across an area four times the size of neighbouring Rwanda. […]
Winning community trust in Ebola control
Since the outbreak was declared in August 2018, response teams have faced difficulties in their efforts to bring the epidemic under control. In 2019, WHO recorded around 390 attacks on health care facilities. The attacks killed 11 and injured 83 health workers. In February 2019, Ebola treatment centres in Butembo and Katwa towns were twice […]