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Sara Cooper and colleagues argue that a better understanding of the complex sociopolitical drivers of distrust in vaccination will increase the potential of social media to rebuild vaccine confidence Vaccination experts have become increasingly alarmed about the continued waning of public confidence in vaccines.1 Social media are considered to be major contributors to this decline, facilitating the rapid and widespread sharing of misinformation, enabling vaccine anxieties and rumours to travel ...

The lives of children in Ituri Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are in danger following a resurgence of the Bubonic plague, a fatal bacterial infection transmitted by fleas.

COVID-19 School closures in the DRC: Impact on the health, protection and education of children and youth (May 2021) Format INTRODUCTION Global data suggest that the risk of transmission of COVID-19 between children in a school setting is minimal when adequate protective measures are applied (mask wearing, physical distancing, hygiene practices). However, in response to the pandemic, many governments around the world implemented temporary school closure measures. As of March 2020, as part of it...

The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak response on women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Format Introduction Lessons learned from past public health crises shed light on the potential consequences of epidemics, not only on the health of women and girls, but on all aspects of their lives. Today, faced with COVID-19, only 52% of countries provide sex-disaggregated data on morbidity and mortality related to COVID-19. Analyses of the broader impacts of the pandemic and the public he...