The situation continues to improve - as of 6 March, no new cases had been recorded for 18 consecutive days - however the outbreak is not yet over and there is a continued need for vigilance.
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Approximately 200,000 people have spontaneously gathered and settled in sites where they lack essential needs. Humanitarian agencies need to urgently step up and scale up assistance to people.
UNFPA wants to reduce the risk to healthcare providers providing obstetric and gynecological care during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This initiative comes as a response to growing evidence that reproductive health services and maternity wards frequently manipulate several types of biological fluid throughout the chain of reproductive and maternal health care; ranging from gynecological consultations to the management of wastes after child birth.
Four leading aid organizations are scaling up operations to assist Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia as the number of Venezuelans displaced in the region passes 4.8 million.
180 midwives and other maternity staff (doctors, midwives) from more than 150 health structures have already been trained in the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu to ensure that the labor of delivery is done without the slightest risk of Ebola virus transmission.