Fighting malaria amidst an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Malaria is threatening the health of people in parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where health workers are also battling an Ebola outbreak. In response, WHO, the government and partners ran a campaign in the Northern Kivu province town of Beni on November 28, to reach 450,000 people with anti-malarial drugs and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.