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Conflict and Health in the DRC :

Conflict and Health in the DRC :. An Eyewitness Account. Presented by Nicole C. D’Errico. Congo Free State. Zaire. Eastern DRC. Armies operating in Eastern Congo. FARDC : National Army CNDP : Rwandan proxy; mostly ethnic Rwandan Tutsi Interahamwe : Former genocidaires, ethnic Rwandan Hutu

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Conflict and Health in the DRC :

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  1. Conflict and Health in the DRC: An Eyewitness Account Presented by Nicole C. D’Errico

  2. Congo Free State

  3. Zaire

  4. Eastern DRC

  5. Armies operating in Eastern Congo FARDC: National Army CNDP: Rwandan proxy; mostly ethnic Rwandan Tutsi Interahamwe: Former genocidaires, ethnic Rwandan Hutu FDLR: Interahamwe + mix of Congolese and Rwandan forces RPF: Rwandan Patriotic Front; Rwandan Tutsi LRA: Ugandan rebel group Mai-Mai: Constant fluidity; Congolese and Rwandans

  6. Systematic Rape Warfare

  7. 55,000

  8. 75%

  9. DisarmamentDemobilizationReintegration

  10. My role

  11. Safe Motherhood Initiative Funded by the Spanish Government In 2008, 253 groups formed, 173 have proved sustainable

  12. Infant mortality rate 126 / 1,000 Under-5 mortality rate 216 / 1,000 Source: Oxfam, 2008

  13. Maternal Mortality 1,837 / 100,000 3,000 / 100,000 Source: Oxfam, 2008

  14. Challenges

  15. 5,400,000

  16. 50%

  17. Institutional Paralysis The absence of viable institutions to put initiatives in place

  18. Pascal’s story

  19. Health, Social and Humanitarian Affairs, Gender, Family and Child

  20. Soldiers use rape to spread HIV

  21. Traumatic fistula affects less than 1% of the Congolese

  22. Laughing about rapeis an idiom of distress

  23. Concrete remedies?

  24. Institutional paralysis necessitates innovative and integrative solutions

  25. Imagine if Pascal’s doctor and policeman were paid salaries?

  26. AcknowledgementsI am especially grateful to HEAL Africa and the Congolese women and men who shared their world with me. Many thanks to Lance Gravlee, Alyson Young and Rene Lemarchand.

  27. References Busch, Gary. An Overview of the Situation in Kivu Province. Nigerian Village Square, 2008. D’Errico, Nicole C. Unpublished data, 2009. Haver, Katherine. Building better responses to displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by helping host families. Oxfam, 2008. Holmes, John, quoted by Tanguy Berthemet, John Holmes, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, quoted by Tanguy Berthemet, “Au Kivu, la barbarieà visage humain,” Le Figaro, 11 November 2007. International Rescue Committee. Congo Mortality Study, 2007. Lemarchand, Rene. Reflections on the Crisis in Eastern Congo. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2008. Lemarchand, Rene. The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Prunier, Gerard. Africa’s World War. Oxford University Press, 2009.

  28. www.healafrica.org Formed in 2000 under the name Doctors on Call for Service (DOCS) With an increased mandate for treating the effects of war DOCS changed their name to HEAL Africa in 2005 Hospital attached to an NGO based out of the US Collects funding from UNICEF, USAID, IRC, Tear Fund, EED, and many other organizations

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