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

dc.creatorTomaz, Amanda Amorim
dc.creatorBastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro
dc.creatorSantos, Reinaldo Souza dos
dc.creatorMossoko, Mathias
dc.date2021-02-11T16:05:12Z
dc.date2021-02-11T16:05:12Z
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T20:22:21Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T20:22:21Z
dc.identifierTOMAZ, 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.
dc.identifier1101-1262
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/46045
dc.identifier10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.841
dc.identifier1464-360X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8855396
dc.descriptionThe 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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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherEuropean Public Health Association
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subjectDoenças Transmissíveis
dc.subjectPaíses em Desenvolvimento
dc.subjectSurtos de Doenças
dc.subjectServiços de Saúde
dc.subjectDoença pelo Vírus Ebola
dc.subjectDireitos Humanos
dc.subjectMalária
dc.subjectPobreza
dc.subjectEpidemias
dc.subjectVigilância
dc.subjectInfecções por Coronavirus
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectCommunicable Diseases
dc.subjectCongo
dc.subjectDeveloping Countries
dc.subjectDisease Outbreaks
dc.subjectHealth Services
dc.subjectEbola Virus Disease
dc.subjectHuman Rights
dc.subjectMalaria
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectEpidemics
dc.subjectSurveillance
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectEpidemics
dc.subjectSurveillance
dc.subjectCommunicable Diseases
dc.subjectDeveloping Countries
dc.subjectDisease Outbreaks
dc.subjectHealth Services
dc.subjectEbola Virus Disease
dc.subjectHuman Rights
dc.subjectMalaria
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectCoronavirus Infections
dc.subjectEpidemics
dc.titleChallenges of ongoing Covid and Ebola epidemics amidst violence and other epidemics in DR Congo
dc.typeArticle


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