Many Experience Stigmatization: Ebola Outbreak Hits Children in Congo Particularly Hard

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Ebola virus spreads rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Babies and toddlers are also severely affected. The death rate is high.

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Ebola has been spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for about 100 days and has killed thousands of people. Children in particular suffer from the outbreak: they are not only threatened by the disease itself, many are also losing their parents and struggling with stigmatisation.

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Children live dangerously in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now they also suffer to a special extent from the Ebola outbreak.

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Here you will find information on the topic "Ebola in the Congo". Read now "Trauer, Trauma, Stigma - Ebola orphans in the Congo".

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In two thirds of the infected children under one year Ebola leads to death, in the case of one to four-year-olds the mortality rate is 58.5 percent. Overall, it is 47.5 percent in the population. According to UNICEF, the proportion of children from 0 to 17 years of age below the confirmed infections is about one fifth.According to the child protection organization Save the Children, since the announcement of the Ebola outbreak more than 100 days…

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Due to the current Ebola outbreak, there are more than 180 orphans. Many affected children also experience exclusion and stigmatisation, said Katharina von Schroeder on NDR Info.