UNICEF responds to Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda with infection prevention and community-based approach
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UNICEF is responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda by combining immediate emergency response with a community-based approach. The organization is dispatching essential infection prevention and control supplies, reinforcing infection prevention in health facilities, schools, and communities, and establishing pre-triage and isolation areas. UNICEF is building on extensive experience from previous Ebola responses in eastern DRC to protect vulnerable families threatened by the outbreak.
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· 3 pulledUNICEF is combining immediate emergency response, including dispatching essential infection prevention and control supplies, with a community-based approach shaped by experience from previous Ebola outbreaks.
In Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNICEF is working with partners and building on extensive experience from Ebola responses in eastern DRC.
An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is threatening vulnerable families.
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