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Twenty-two women in Democratic Republic of Congo have raised allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers during an Ebola outbreak, a report said on Wednesday.
They said they were sexually exploited or abused in acts that included alleged rape or led to unwanted pregnancies by men in the east of the country, The New Humanitarian (TNH) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation said.
The men offered them jobs in exchange for sex, identifying themselves as working for major aid organisations.
Three of the seven organisations named are UN agencies, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), which features in 14 of the claims.
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Health workers flooded into eastern DR Congo to help fight Ebola after the disease broke out in the region in August 2018. By John WESSELS (AFP)
Nearly two dozen women in DR Congo have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers during an Ebola outbreak, adding to a scandal that broke last year, a report said on Wednesday.
Twenty-two women have said they were sexually exploited or abused, in acts that included alleged rape or led to unwanted pregnancies, by male aid workers responding to an Ebola crisis in eastern DR Congo, The New Humanitarian (TNH) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation said.
Nigeria reports 50 Lassa fever deaths in 2021, Results from LASCOPE study Nigeria reports 50 Lassa fever deaths in 2021, Results from LASCOPE study
50 deaths from confirmed cases, or 20 percent of the total, were reported.
In total for 2021, 14 States have recorded at least one confirmed case across 52 Local Government Areas.
Of all confirmed cases, 79% are from Edo (44%), Ondo (28%) and Taraba (7%) States.
In addition, results of the largest prospective cohort study ever conducted on Lassa fever, known as LASCOPE (LASsa fever clinical COurse and Prognostic factors in an Epidemic context in Nigeria), which was conducted by a research team from ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) and its partners, have been published in The Lancet.
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