Kinshasa, march 21st, 2023 (CPA).- The Congolese population was exhorted on Monday to the importance of good oral hygiene in order to avoid oral diseases, by an expert of the National Oral Health Programme (PNSBD), Dr Belinda Kibale, on the…
CPA: Can you give us an overview of the malnutrition situation in the DRC? Director of PRONANUT (National Nutrition Program), Dr Bruno Bindamba: According to the 2018-2019 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), the prevalence of chronic malnutrition or stunting was…
Kinshasa, March 16th, 2023 (CPA). – Two new confirmed cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Monday in the province of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), out of 725 samples tested, reported the daily bulletin of the technical…
Kananga, March 16th, 2023 (AC P) – 1,738,042 (one million seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand and forty-two children) aged between 0 and 59 months are targeted for the polio vaccination campaign in the twenty-six health zones of the province of…
Kinshasa, march 14th, 2023 (CPA).- Four new cures were recorded on Saturday in the province of Nord Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reported the daily bulletin of the Technical Secretariat of the Multisectoral Committee for the response…
Kinshasa, march 14th, 2023 (CPA).- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) currently has six sentinel influenza surveillance sites in three provinces, namely Kinshasa (four sites), Kongo Central (one site) and Haut-Katanga (one site), the epidemiological surveillance direction informed CPA on…
Kinshasa, march 6th, 2023 (CPA).- The Covid-19 epidemic is still active in 5 of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which have reported new cases in the last two weeks, according to statistics provided daily by…
Kinshasa, march 6th, 2023 (CPA).- 638 cases of plague, including 14 deaths, were recorded in 2022 in the province of Ituri, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a report by the epidemiological surveillance department…
Kinshasa, March 6th, 2023, (CPA). – Obesity favours many chronic diseases, said the president of the association of nutritionists and dieticians of the DRC, Mutamba Mpoyo Tapoy, during an interview on Saturday with the CPA, on the sidelines of the…
Matadi, March 6th, 2023, (CPA). – Influencers of Matadi in Central Kongo have been involved in the management of infodemia as part of the fight against Covid-19 through the Communication Task Force, the provincial head of communication and media division,…