The struggle to get Ebola vaccine to rebel-held areas of Congo
Jabs can stop the epidemic. But men with machetes can stop the vaccinators
WHEN A YOUNG woman living near Beni came down with a fever, a nurse told her to go to the clinic for a test. But by the time the Ebola virus was detected in her blood, she was in a car bumping her way towards Kalungata, an area controlled by the Mai-Mai, a plundering, raping militia. She probably fled because of a widespread belief that people go to clinics to die. Beni is the epicentre of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “A battle within a battle”
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