U.S. lab identifies rare new HIV strain from three blood samples taken in Congo
A U.S. pharmaceutical firm has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome sequencing is helping researchers stay ahead of mutations. The strain, HIV-1 Group M subtype L, has been recorded in three people ...
The International Criminal Court passed its highest ever sentence Thursday, sending a Congolese warlord known as "The Terminator" to prison for 30 years for crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery. Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty in July of 18 counts of war crimes and ...
Congolese radio host, an anti-Ebola fighter, is slain at home: army
A Congolese radio host involved in the fight against Ebola has been killed at his home in the northeast Ituri region of Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Sunday. The unidentified attackers got into his home at Lwemba, killed him, wounded his wife and ...
The Congolese medical authorities said Saturday they had received the first shipment of a new Ebola vaccine as the Central African country battles its second-deadliest outbreak of the virus this decade. The health ministry for the eastern province of North Kivu said that a preliminary ...
In Congo, an Ebola survivor with a motorbike helps ease fear amid ambulance phobia
When Germain Kalubenge gets a request for a ride on his motorcycle it can be a matter of life or death. The 23-year-old is a survivor of the Ebola virus and often is the only driver his community trusts to help if someone suspects ...
Congo's Ebola outbreak slows but still entrenched in insecure areas: WHO
The Ebola epidemic in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been confined to a rural area rife with militias and people on the move, making it harder to stamp out altogether, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. Only 14 confirmed infections were reported last ...
'Good news for peace': Congo troops shoot dead Rwandan Hutu warlord wanted by ICC
A Rwandan Hutu rebel leader wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges has been shot dead by the Congolese army, a DRC military spokesperson said on Wednesday in what Kigali called "good news for peace. Sylvestre Mudacumura, commander of the Democratic Forces ...
Congo girl dies of Ebola in Uganda as doctors collect Japanese medical prize
On the same day doctors from Congo and Uganda were awarded medical prizes in Japan, a 9-year-old Congolese girl who tested positive for Ebola in Uganda was confirmed to have died, showing the challenges the medical community faces in containing the outbreak. The young girl's ...
Ebola kills boy aged 7 in Congo's South Kivu, the province's second fatality
South Kivu, Congo AFP-Jiji A child has died from Ebola in Congo's South Kivu, health authorities said Monday, the second person to succumb to the virus since the epidemic spread to the eastern province. The announcement last week of the first confirmed cases in South Kivu revived ...
Measles killing more people than Ebola in Congo, Doctors Without Borders says
Measles has killed 2,758 people in Congo since January, more than the Ebola epidemic in a year, medical NGO Doctors Without Borders said, and called Saturday for a "massive mobilization of funds." The disease, preventable with a vaccine, has infected over 145,000 people in Congo ...
Scientists hail promise of first effective Ebola treatments in Congo trial
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs — Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 — were ...
The World Health Organisation said it has vaccinated over 1,300 people who potentially came into contact with the Ebola virus in the Congolese city of Goma, helping contain what many feared would be a rapid spread in an urban center. A year-long Ebola outbreak in ...
