Militarised peacekeeping: lessons from the 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

Lessons Learned about Pneumonic Plague Diagnosis from 2 Outbreaks, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pneumonic plague is a highly transmissible infectious disease for which fatality rates can be high if untreated; it is considered extremely lethal. Without prompt diagnosis and treatment, disease management can be problematic. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2 outbreaks of pneumonic plague occurred during 2005 and 2006. In 2005, because of limitations in laboratory capabilities, etiolo...

Pre-emptive war epidemiology: lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

www.thelancet.com Vol 367 January 7, 2006 7 whether these findings contribute to the exploration of the association between increased concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines and major depression. Therefore we agree with Tyring’s prudent interpretation that etanercept might relieve symptoms of depression. In future studies, it would be interesting to measure effects of anti-TNF agents in pat...

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...