| Author | Tomaz, Amanda Amorim | |
| Author | Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro | |
| Author | Santos, Reinaldo Souza dos | |
| Author | Mossoko, Mathias | |
| Access date | 2021-02-11T16:05:12Z | |
| Available date | 2021-02-11T16:05:12Z | |
| Document date | 2020 | |
| Citation | TOMAZ, Amanda Amorim et al. Challenges of ongoing Covid and Ebola epidemics amidst violence and other epidemics in DR Congo.
European Journal of Public Health, v. 30, Suppl. 5, p. v842-v843, 2020. | en_US |
| ISSN | 1101-1262 | |
| URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/46045 | |
| Language | eng | en_US |
| Publisher | European Public Health Association | en_US |
| Rights | open access | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Doenças Transmissíveis | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Países em Desenvolvimento | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Surtos de
Doenças | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Serviços de Saúde | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Doença pelo Vírus Ebola | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Direitos Humanos | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Malária | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Pobreza | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Epidemias | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Vigilância | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | Infecções por Coronavirus | en_US |
| Subject in Portuguese | COVID-19 | en_US |
| Title | Challenges of ongoing Covid and Ebola epidemics amidst violence and other epidemics in DR Congo | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |
| DOI | 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.841 | |
| Abstract | The world has seen outbreaks of emergency and re-emergency of infectious diseases very often in the past years, many of them with devastating consequences for low-income countries with fragile or nonexistent health system, covid-19 being by now the last of a long series of global challenges. Although it is a huge challenge for the whole world, one country is facing it together with a current Ebola outbreak plus violence and some other diseases. The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing the immediate effects of both epidemics as illness and death, however its consequences at the political and economic level are usually more complex and may be protracted. Following the debate on why poor countries remain poor, it is maybe useful to rethink poverty and inequality keeping in mind Amartya Sen's seminal concepts: development must comprise freedom and respect for human rights and institutions at the price of fostering a vicious circle of (re)emerging diseases and structural violence. Ebola epidemics, that usually face some challenges when they happen alone, now together with malaria, measles, plague and covid, on top of violence in some areas, the disease sees its protocols harmed: for covid the orientation is to stay isolated, for Ebola the response includes tracking contacts. What means coming with a team to field to do the mapping in the middle of a confinement. The surveillance for such many epidemics on top of violence and humanitarian crisis makes the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the most worrying countries in terms of consequences of the Covid outbreak. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Ministry of Health. Epidemiology & Information Systems Management. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. | en_US |
| Subject | Communicable Diseases | en_US |
| Subject | Congo | en_US |
| Subject | Developing Countries | en_US |
| Subject | Disease Outbreaks | en_US |
| Subject | Health Services | en_US |
| Subject | Ebola Virus Disease | en_US |
| Subject | Human Rights | en_US |
| Subject | Malaria | en_US |
| Subject | Poverty | en_US |
| Subject | Epidemics | en_US |
| Subject | Surveillance | en_US |
| Subject | COVID-19 | en_US |
| Subject | Epidemics | en_US |
| Subject | Surveillance | en_US |
| DeCS | Communicable Diseases | en_US |
| DeCS | Developing Countries | en_US |
| DeCS | Disease Outbreaks | en_US |
| DeCS | Health Services | en_US |
| DeCS | Ebola Virus Disease | en_US |
| DeCS | Human Rights | en_US |
| DeCS | Malaria | en_US |
| DeCS | Poverty | en_US |
| DeCS | Coronavirus Infections | en_US |
| DeCS | Epidemics | en_US |
| e-ISSN | 1464-360X | |
| xmlui.metadata.dc.subject.ods | 01 Erradicação da pobreza | |
| xmlui.metadata.dc.subject.ods | 03 Saúde e Bem-Estar | |
| xmlui.metadata.dc.subject.ods | 10 Redução das desigualdades | |
| xmlui.metadata.dc.subject.ods | 16 Paz, Justiça e Instituições Eficazes | |
