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This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover:
- Humanitarian situation in Cameroon
- Dengue fever in Togo
- Measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo
For each of these events, a brief description, followed by public health measures implemented and an interpretation of the situation is provided.
A table is provided at the end of the bulletin with information on all new and ongoing public health events currently being monitored in the region, as well as recent events that have been controlled and closed.
Major issues and challenges include:
- Since the beginning of 2023, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been experiencing a measles outbreak reported in six provinces affected by a humanitarian crisis. Although there has been an overall decrease in cases over the last four epidemiological weeks, some settings continue to experience an increase in cases. Additionally, persistent challenges such as limited resources for planned activities, limited support from partners for intervention scale-up, restricted healthcare access for internally displaced persons (IDPs), limited diagnostic capabilities in provincial laboratories, insufficient implementation of community-based surveillance activities, and a shortage of sampling and transportation kits for potential epidemic diseases in affected zones have compounded the situation. The government and its partners should sustain and strengthen surveillance activities, alongside vaccination efforts, to effectively control the outbreak