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Africa: Africa CDC and WHO Call for Urgent, Community-Led Action to Contain Ebola in the DR Congo

[WHO] The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers and faster delivery of resources to affected communities.

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