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Ebola response in eastern DR Congo must include food, WFP says.
The World Food Programme says the Ebola response in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo will not work unless it also feeds people.
More than 500,000 people in Ituri province are in IPC Phase 4 hunger – one level below starvation – in a region already carrying conflict and mass displacement.
"The response to Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo must go beyond health care alone," said David Stevenson, the agency's country director. He warned that "the outbreak is moving faster than the response".
The argument is practical. Families with nothing to eat cannot stay put, avoid contact or keep to isolation rules, and that is how the virus keeps moving.
WFP is already running humanitarian flights, managing supply chains, feeding people at treatment centres and helping build them. It says it needs more to get food into cut-off communities and to support the areas carrying the outbreak.
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The World Food Programme says the Ebola response in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo will not work unless it also feeds people.
More than 500,000 people in Ituri province are in IPC Phase 4 hunger — one level below starvation — in a region already carrying conflict and mass displacement.
“The response to Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo must go beyond health care alone,” said David Stevenson, the agency’s country director. He warned that “the outbreak is moving faster than the response”.
The argument is practical. Families with nothing to eat cannot stay put, avoid contact or keep to isolation rules, and that is how the virus keeps moving.
WFP is already running humanitarian flights, managing supply chains, feeding people at treatment centres and helping build them. It says it needs more to get food into cut-off communities and to support the areas carrying the outbreak.
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