29/07/2019

UNICEF ramps up Ebola prevention efforts as South Sudan assessed as ?high-risk? country

UN children's agency reaches 3 million with Ebola prevention messages 29 July 2019 - Crucial information on how to protect oneself from contracting Ebola saves lives. Since January 2019, UNICEF and its partners have engaged more than 3 million people in South Sudan with Ebola prevention messages, the UN children's agency said today. This week marks one year since the start of the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), that has already killed more than 1,700 people. DRC is in the grip of the second worst Ebola outbreak in history. There is an increasingly significant risk of Ebola spreading across porous borders into South Sudan. UNICEF...
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