scholarly journals Prioritizing Healthcare Delivery in a Conflict Zone; Comment on 'TB/HIV Co-Infection Care in Conflict-Affected Settings: A Mapping of Health Facilities in the Goma Area, Democratic Republic of Congo'

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Wood ◽  
Eugene T Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Conflict Zone

scholarly journals TB/HIV Co-Infection Care in Conflict-Affected Settings: A Mapping of Health Facilities in the Goma Area, Democratic Republic of Congo

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthollet Bwira Kaboru ◽  
Brenda. A. Ogwang ◽  
Edmond Ntabe Namegabe ◽  
Ndemo Mbasa ◽  
Deka Kambale Kabunga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Republic Of Congo

scholarly journals Challenges of ongoing Covid and Ebola epidemics amidst violence and other epidemics in DR Congo

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Amorim Tomaz ◽  
F I P M Bastos ◽  
R S Santos ◽  
M Mossoko
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Conflict Zone

Abstract The world has seen outbreaks of emergency and re-emergency of infectious diseases very often in the past years, many of them with devastating consequences for low-income countries with fragile or nonexistent health system, covid-19 being by now the last of a long series of global challenges. Although it is a huge challenge for the whole world, one country is facing it together with a current Ebola outbreak plus violence and some other diseases. The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing the immediate effects of both epidemics as illness and death, however its consequences at the political and economic level are usually more complex and may be protracted. Following the debate on why poor countries remain poor, it is maybe useful to rethink poverty and inequality keeping in mind Amartya Sen's seminal concepts: development must comprise freedom and respect for human rights and institutions at the price of fostering a vicious circle of (re)emerging diseases and structural violence. Ebola epidemics, that usually face some challenges when they happen alone, now together with malaria, measles, plague and covid, on top of violence in some areas, the disease sees its protocols harmed: for covid the orientation is to stay isolated, for Ebola the response includes tracking contacts. What means coming with a team to field to do the mapping in the middle of a confinement. The surveillance for such many epidemics on top of violence and humanitarian crisis makes the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the most worrying countries in terms of consequences of the Covid outbreak. Key messages Study of the association between the Covid, Ebola virus disease outbreak and the at-risk population living in the conflict zone in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The study presents the difficulties that the population encountered in the face of restrictions imposed by armed groups to reach health services during an Ebola outbreak, in a conflict zone.

Malunion of Long-Bone Fractures in a Conflict Zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 2200-2206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Bauhahn ◽  
Harald Veen ◽  
Rigo Hoencamp ◽  
Nelson Olim ◽  
Edward C. T. H. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Bone Fractures ◽  
Long Bone ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Long Bone Fractures ◽  
Conflict Zone

scholarly journals The Democratic Republic of Congo: Endeavoring Women Empowerment after a War of Rape

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Deni Meutia
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Rape Victim ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Conflict Zone ◽  
Better Than

This paper analyzed the use of rape as a weapon in Democratic Republic of Congo conflict zone. Rape usually used by the arm group to weaken their enemy. This strategy did not only targeted to women but also men. Rape gave different effect toward women and men. The purpose of this paper is to explain how rape become the weapon of conflict and their effect to the victims, even men and woman. Feminist perspective used in this paper. In the end, the author found that women have a way to overcome the effect and impact of rape better than men do. Social structure, which placed men in the upper side of women, made the effect and impact on the men who experienced rape victim hard to release their suffering. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to show how women and men could manage their self as a victim in the conflict zone.

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