War's Deadly Double Edged Sword: Conflict Fuels Disease Spread in Congo, Sudan, and Yemen The images from war torn regions are all too familiar: civilians displaced by conflict, struggling to access basic necessities like clean water, sanitation, and healthcare.
But the convergence of armed violence and infectious disease is a particularly insidious phenomenon, one that has come to define the humanitarian crises in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan, and Yemen.
The current Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC is a stark example of this trend.