France funds project to take charge of "Ebola Winners" in Democratic Republic of Congo

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The Professor Yves Lévy launched the project "Winners of Ebola", under the chairmanship of the technical secretariat of the Multisectoral Committee for the Response to Ebola Virus Disease, the Ministry of Health, the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) and the Ebola Special Envoy for France this 23 September 2019.

Funded by France, this project will combine, in addition to the National Ebola Healing Program, the INRB in partnership with a team of French scientists from the Institute for Research for Development (IRD) and the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).

Professor Yves Lévy, France's special envoy for the Ebola epidemic, is doing his second mission in the DRC from 22 to 26 September 2019. He is at the head of a strong French delegation involving the main actors involved in the French response to the Ebola virus epidemic, namely: the Crisis and Support Center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (CDCS), the French Development Agency (AFD), Expertise France and INSERM.

The fruitful collaboration of Professor Lévy with Professor Muyembe, director general of INRB and national coordinator of the Ebola response, led to the establishment of a major scientific program dedicated to the medical monitoring of people cured of Ebola.

Yesterday afternoon, Professor Levy presented the project "Winners of Ebola" during the launch meeting with the various partners at the Hotel du Fleuve. This project is based on the observation that among the approximately 3000 confirmed cases, nearly 950 cures must be treated. Indeed, the vast majority of these are sequelae that are both psychological (anxiety, depression) and medical (musculoskeletal pain, loss of hearing, decreased vision or blindness, etc.). In addition to these sequelae, it has been found that the virus can persist in the body once cured as in sperm, breast milk and this up to 500 days after healing.

This management program is therefore fundamental to treat survivors, to understand and define strategies for treating these sequelae and to propose solutions to eradicate the virus from the body after healing, in order to avoid cases of secondary contaminations.

By tackling these fundamental scientific challenges for public health, the Ebola Winners project is part of the French Ebola response strategy, which aims to go beyond the direct response to the epidemic, by strengthening the DRC's health system and developing long-term epidemic prevention tools.

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