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Yap Boum

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Yap Boum

Yap Boum is a professor in the faculty of Medicine at Mbarara University of Science and Technology

The virus takes its name from the Ebola River, near the site of one of the first recorded outbreaks in what is now the DRC, in 1976.
CHOLERA

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

The DRC has systematically gone about strengthening health infrastructure, engaging the community and doing better research

  • Yap Boum
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