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A girl in her classroom

A child getting vaccinated against measles in the DRC

Press release

09 October 2019

As measles deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo top 4,000, UNICEF rushes medical kits to health centers and vaccinates thousands more children

An Ebola survivor in DRC

Press release

04 October 2019

1,000 Ebola survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Un élève dans une école à l'est de la RDC

Press release

03 September 2019

Children return to school in Ebola-affected regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Un bébé qui dort dans une crèche soutenue par l'UNICEF

Statement

Protecting children and engaging communities key to ending Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as deaths pass 2,000

Un enfant affecté par Ebola dans une crèche soutenue par l'UNICEF

Statement

Statement by Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A care giver holds a baby, at a UNICEF crèche in Beni

Press release

Number of children orphaned or left unaccompanied by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rising fast

Des jeunes impliqués dans la lutte contre Ebola en RDC

Press release

Inter-Agency Statement on Ebola outbreak in the DRC

Tomorrow marks one year since the Government of the DRC declared an outbreak of the Ebola virus disease.

Students put a poster of sensitization on the walls at La Vérité school.

News note

Geneva Palais briefing note two days before the one-year milestone of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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