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Challenges of ongoing Covid and Ebola epidemics amidst violence and other epidemics in DR Congo
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TOMAZ, Amanda Amorim et al. Challenges of ongoing Covid and Ebola epidemics amidst violence and other epidemics in DR Congo.
European Journal of Public Health, v. 30, Suppl. 5, p. v842-v843, 2020.
1101-1262
10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.841
1464-360X
Autor
Tomaz, Amanda Amorim
Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro
Santos, Reinaldo Souza dos
Mossoko, Mathias
Resumen
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.
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