by admin | Aug 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
All photographs by Josué Kumbi. During an Ebola outbreak, every hour matters. Rapid laboratory confirmation helps health authorities isolate cases, trace contacts and respond quickly to stop further transmission. Early in the Ebola outbreak in Ituri Province, samples...
by admin | Jun 29, 2026 | Conferences, distribution system, Emergency Relief
When an outbreak emerges, how quickly it is contained often depends on decisions made years earlier. This was the central lesson I took away from the Global Health Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur. As Country Director for VillageReach in the Democratic Republic of...
by admin | Apr 15, 2026 | distribution system
At 4 a.m., Julien Nyembo left home on a motorbike to collect suspected cholera samples from a remote health-zone office in Tanganyika province in the DRC. By the time he reached the central hub, it was already 3 p.m. The journey was difficult. Along the way, he rode...
by admin | Nov 3, 2025 | Emergency Relief, Uncategorized
When news of suspected Ebola cases began circulating in Bulape, a remote health zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the urgency was immediate. The fear of hemorrhagic fever prompted provincial health authorities to act fast – and VillageReach was there to...
