Adverse Events Following a Mass Yellow Fever Immunization Campaign — Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, September 2016 John O. Otshudiema, MD1,2; Nestor G. Ndakala, MD3; Maurice L. Loko, MD4; Elande-taty K. Mawanda, MD5; Gaston P. Tshapenda, MD6; Jacques M. Kimfuta, MD5; Abdou S. Gueye, MD, PhD7; Jacob Dee, MPH8; Rossanne M. Philen, MD7, Coralie Giese, MA, MPH7, Christoph...

MMJ VOL 28 (2): June 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mmj.v28i2.9 Introduction The southern African region is defined in political terms as those countries that are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).1 Currently there are fifteen member states of the SADC: Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibi...

Objective We will describe a real-time mobile surveillance and case management system designed to organize data collected by multiple officers about cases and their contacts. We will discuss this surveillance system and its application for Ebola and other infectious diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other similar settings. We will review the technology, results, challen...

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...

The purpose of this essay is twofold. First is to analyze the role of insurgent groups in the anti-Kabila civil war in the Congo within the statist approach, which endows the state with considerable autonomy in defining the nature of states’ preferences and developing solutions to them. The essay also contends that the statist approach is not sufficient, however. Once enmeshed in a stalemated w...

Snakeborne Armillifer pentastomiasis is an emerging human parasitic infection in rural tropical areas where snake meat is eaten. After a series of severe ocular A. grandis larval infections and anecdotal abdominal infection in Sankuru District, Democratic Republic of the Congo, during 2014-2015, we systematically investigated possible pentastomid etiology in patients who underwent surgery in th...

This paper concerns monitoring the contiguous tropical forest biome that spans six central African countries (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo). The author offers a general overview of biological characteristics of central African forests, introducing a starting point from which to analyze regional approaches to biological...