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<p>The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC is one of DFID’s key emergency priorities.
Although a challenging security context is significantly hampering response activities,
an experimental vaccine has been deployed throughout the response to good effect,
and has likely saved thousands of lives.</p><p>The UK Government is committed to promoting
respect for International Humanitarian Law. We strongly condemn repeated attacks and
threats of violence directed towards health facilities and health workers who are
working towards ending this outbreak. Health workers are not a target. The response
must balance protecting health workers with not using security in a way that further
escalates mistrust or violence. This is something that the UK has been advocating
since the beginning of the outbreak. We are pleased to see theincreasing involvement
of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security, as well as a number of civil
society organisations who have important experience of working in fragile and conflict
affected humanitarian contexts.</p>
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