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Interventions to Control Virus Transmission During an Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Experience from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
On 6 May 1995, the Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) coordinator in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), received a request for assistance for what was believed to be a concurrent outbreak of bacillary dysentery and viral hemorrhagic fever ...
Kerstiëns, B, Matthys, F
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A global approach for a dictionary of Lingála: from the localization of software to a lemmatization strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Lingála is the national language spoken in Kinshasa, the capital of the country. Even if this language is going through a straightforward empowering process, its progress is still hindered by the lack of terminological and lexicographic tools; hence the ...
Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu
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La pratique du parifoot constitue-t-elle une alternative crédible pour la survie des jeunes kinois ? [PDF]

open access: yesMouvements et Enjeux Sociaux
Cette réflexion met en lumière les enjeux et les limites résultant du jeu parifoot à Kinshasa. De manière plus clair, elle analyse sa pratique, en la considérant à la fois comme un phénomène social et une stratégie de survie pour les jeunes. Pour cela, l’
Ange MONDO NTIMANSIEMI
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Why Congo Persists: Sovereignty, Globalization and the Violent Reproduction of a Weak State [PDF]

open access: yes
Wherever one looks, many elements conspire to suggest that the Democratic Republic of Congo should have collapsed some time ago under the multiple assaults of its own inadequacies as a state, the extreme heterogeneity and polarization of its populations,
Pierre Englebert
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Fertility in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we examine and discuss estimates of fertility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Currently, the United Nations estimates that the country's total fertility rate is 6.7, and national sources provide an even higher estimate of 7.3.
Shapiro, David, Tambashe, B. Oleko
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The border city of Goma: zone of contestation or laboratory of change? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In order to assess the remarkable paradox of Goma’s dynamic development and transformation from a peripheral town into an important regional economic hub in a generalized context of state collapse and armed conflict, this article tackles the city as a ...
Büscher, Karen, Vlassenroot, Koen
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Profil comparatif et évolutif des personnes infectées par le virus de l'immunodéficience humaine traitées aux antirétroviraux à Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2014
INTRODUCTION: a trithérapie (ARV) introduite en R.D.Congo en 1996, a permis l'amélioration substantielle de la qualité de vie des PVVIH et a réduit la morbimortalité liée au sida en R.D. Congo.
Tshingani Koy   +4 more
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[Book review] "The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire by Michael G. Schatzberg" [PDF]

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Congo(Kinshasa), Internal conflicts, Politics, Human ...
Takeuchi, Shin'ichi
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