Today in eastern DRC, groups still fight over control of diamond mines.
Focus group discussions were conducted in Kiswahili, the language of general communication in DRC; groups consisted of between six and 12 participants and lasted between 90 and 120 minutes.
The outbreak that occurred late in the summer of 2014 in the vicinity of Boende Town in DRC groups with a set of previous Gabon outbreak genomes isolated 20 years earlier, but not to the genomes of intervening outbreaks in that country.
The Free Fair DRC campaign group has been active in raising awareness, and Ewanga's case was discussed in British parliament during October 2014, where it garnered 28 signatures from across party lines.
One of the few glimmers of hope that the Congolese people have had in recent years has been the 'Conflict Minerals Section 1502' of the Dodd-Frank Act – passed in the U.S. in 2010 with the aim of reducing revenue flows to DRC militia groups.
To investigate disease-specificity of the WORC when compared to a different DRC, a second group 'non-Ruptured DRC' is added (group 2).
A translator native to eastern DRC translated focus group audio-files and two members of the research team open-coded the transcripts [ 18, 19].
In DRC, however, focus group participants provided mixed feedback including some complaints about the quality of care, such as clinic staff privileging people they know and stock-outs of medicine and supplies.
With good assistance, a person with alluhire will become normal.' (Woman in FGD Butembo, DRC, 7 March 2007) The group of local syndromes defined by severe behavioural disturbances have considerable similarities with 'psychotic disorders' (including manic states).
International human rights groups had referenced the village and its location, researchers who specialize in studying DRC noted that armed groups frequently take control of communities in that area, and Merveille personally counted the abandoned houses to confirm that some families had left the village.
