In Congo, after Mpox, families face stigmatization

(30 Aug 2024)
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Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo – 28 August 2024
1. Tracking of Clarisse Ishimwe, mother of two kids, walking whilst carrying one of her children who was cured of Mpox
2. Various of child’s body cured of Mpox
3. Mid of Clarisse Ishimwe and her kids sitting on the ground
4. SOUNDBITE (Kinyarwanda) Clarisse Ishimwe, mother of two children cured of Mpox:
“I was very scared because we had been told that this epidemic was very deadly. I was worried about my children, especially when I saw pimples on their bodies. I cried every day.”
5. Mid of sign of Bushagara’s site in Nyiragongo
6. Mid of powdered soap in plastic bags sold by Clarisse Ishimwe on a table
7. Mid of Clarisse Ishimwe and her kids at the table
8. SOUNDBITE (Kinyarwanda) Clarisse Ishimwe, mother of two children cured of Mpox:
“I’ve started up again with my small business, but unfortunately customers don’t come like they used to. People don’t come to buy from me anymore because they say my children were sick with Mpox, so they can contaminate them too. All my customers have run away from me.”
9. Wide of Clarisse Ishimwe and one of her children sitting on the ground
10. Wide of people at the Bushagara site
11. SOUNDBITE (Kinyarwanda) Clarisse Ishimwe, mother of two children cured of Mpox:
“All my customers have fled, and now I don’t even have enough to eat, because people don’t buy my products anymore, and I feel very sad.”

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Kanyaruchinya, Democratic Republic of Congo – 16 August 2024
12. Various of patient in health center tent
13. Wide of a doctor speaking to patients

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nyiragongo, DRC – 28 August 2024
14. Close of feet of cured child of Florence Mabwire
15. Tilt up of Florence Mabwire and her child sitting next other people
16. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Florence Mabwire, mother of a child cured of Mpox:
“People here are beginning to be afraid of this epidemic. But as there is already a cure, it’s okay. We want them to give us more vaccines so that this disease disappears completely. And I say thank you very much (to the health staff) because my child is cured after being in hospital.”

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Kanyaruchinya, DRC – 16 August 2024
17. Wide of an elderly woman walking through the Kanyaruchinya health center
STORYLINE:
Clarisse Ishimwe proudly carries her child who has just been cured of Mpox disease at the Bushagara site for displaced persons, near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ombeni Mugabé, the three-year-old boy, still bears traces of the disease on his body after more than two weeks of treatment at the Kanyaruchinya health center, near Goma.

His mother, Clarisse Ishimwe, still remembers the painful days spent at the health center with her sick children.

“I was very scared because we had been told that this epidemic was very deadly. I was worried about my children, especially when I saw pimples on their bodies. I cried every day”, she said.

On her return from the health center, Clarisse Ishimwe is faced with another problem: the stigmatization of people who have caught Mpox. At her marketplace, where she sells powdered soap in plastics and doughnuts, few people come to buy from her, so much so that today she’s worried about her survival.

“All my customers have fled, and now I don’t even have enough to eat, because people don’t buy my products anymore, and I feel very sad," she said.

In Nyiragongo, people are asking for vaccines to cope with this disease.

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