Factors of Risk and Protection for Ebola Exposure in Health Care Workers, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

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Team Lead-Anna Lehmann Borough

Project member(s):

  • Anna Lehmann Borough (Team Lead)
    Anna Bratcher
    Nicole Hoff

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Community partners:

  • Anne Rimoin
    Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), Kinshasa, DRC
    UCLA DRC
    United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Factors of Risk and Protection for Ebola Exposure in Health Care Workers, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Project overview

Our long term goal is to prevent asymptomatic or paucisymtpomatic infection and spread of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This may lead to insights on other viruses that present asymptomatically. Our objective for this analysis is to:

  • identify risk and protective factors for asymptomatic/paucisymtpomatic EVD in health care workers (HCWs) from Kinshasa province of DRC
  • compare our findings to previously identified risk factors for HCWs in Boende, DRC

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Project notes

This is the most important section. Check out these resources to contextualize the history of Ebola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

The Congolese man who really discovered Ebola--Jean-Jacques Muyembe

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/04/774863495/this-congolese-doctor-discovered-ebola-but-never-got-credit-for-it-until-now

A timeline of DRC history and significant events: from 1200s to present day

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13286306

Lasting effects of colonial-era resource exploitation in Congo

https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/lasting-effects-colonial-era-resource-exploitation-congo-concessions-violence-and-indirect

WHO's ethical standards for research during public health emergencies

https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/liverecovery-save-of-ethical-standards-for-research-during-public-health-emergencies.pdf

Cases and Outbreaks of Ebola virus disease by Country--DRC

https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/chronology.html

 

 

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Last updated on June 26, 2023