WHO Global Health Emergency Appeal: DRC

Overview

The epidemiological situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is marked by the emergence and re-emergence of several communicable diseases with epidemic potential. The country has experienced several epidemic outbreaks, including: monkeypox (9064 cases; 304 deaths), plague (582 cases; 42 deaths), yellow fever (2 cases; 0 deaths), circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (201 cases; 0 deaths), measles (55 940 cases; 825 deaths), meningitis (2558 cases; 202 deaths), and cholera (6817 cases; 125 deaths). During the vaccine responses, 2 635 401 people were vaccinated with oral cholera vaccine; 162 518 people ages 1 to 49 years were vaccinated with the tetravalent Menactra vaccine against meningitis; and 1 180 268 children ages 6 months to 14 years were vaccinated against measles.