Malaria and other preventable diseases rife as ongoing insecurity hampers aid delivery in a country where humanitarian plight has been largely ignored
More than two years of sectarian violence have decimated already fragile health systems in Central African Republic (CAR), leading to a rise in preventable diseases like malaria among families still hiding from armed groups in the bush, according to the head of a medical charity.
Laurence de Barros-Duchêne, head of mission in CAR for Médecins Sans Frontières, said disease was wreaking havoc as armed groups that torch homes, rob and loot hemmed people into remote areas. When those affected finally got to health centres, they were already severely ill, she said.
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