Congo-Kinshasa: Mpox in Eastern DRC Just Another Challenge Amid Torrent of Problems

[MSF] Dr Tejshri Shah, General Director of MSF and a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases, recently returned from North Kivu, an eastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC is the country at the epicentre of the current mpox, previously named monkeypox, epidemic in Africa. She emphasises that containing the virus in sites for displaced people will be impossible unless efforts are made to listen to people’s needs and improve the appalling living conditions they have been struggling



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