Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

logical trauma during war. Based on studies of Vietnam veterans and veterans with war-related traumas, an Institute of Medicine committee concluded that there is sufficient evidence of an association between deployment to a war zone and suicide in the early years after deployment. Study limitations include the potential for misclassification and underreporting of suicide, although this would be...

Ocular Pentastomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ocular pentastomiasis is a rare infection caused by the larval stage of pentastomids, an unusual group of crustacean-related parasites. Zoonotic pentastomids have a distinct geographical distribution and utilize reptiles or canids as final hosts. Recently, an increasing number of human abdominal infections have been reported in Africa, where pentastomiasis is an emerging, though severely neglec...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo: quantifying the crisis.

Since the end of August 2008, renewed fighting in North Kivu, a province in the north-eastern quadrant of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has displaced at least 250 000 people. It has also made an already difficult situation worse for more than a million people living without clean water, food or access to health care. Even before the latest hostilities, health facilities in the cou...