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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Supporting the DRC to improve health outcomes since 2010.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is dedicated to achieving universal health coverage and improving health outcomes for all its people. PATH has worked with the DRC since 2010, strengthening health systems and supporting its digital health transformation. Collaborating with national and sub-national partners, we prepare for and respond to emerging health threats in the Central African country.

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SAFEStart+ project director Dr. Albert Komba stands in full personal protective gear inside the mpox isolation ward at Clinique Kinoise in Kinshasa, DRC

Universal Health Coverage

PATH is working with the DRC's national agency for clinical engineering and digital health (ANICNS) and the president’s universal health coverage team, supporting the national strategic planning process for digital transformation. As part of this work, PATH supported DRC to develop a costed digital health investment roadmap to prioritize and cost potential investments in digital health.

By the numbers
95%
viral suppression in HIV patients
35K
health care workers registered with Kinshasa provincial government
120
staff in 4 provinces

Preparing for epidemics

PATH supports epidemic outbreak preparation and response in the DRC. Through the COVID-19 pandemic and Ebola outbreaks, PATH worked with Resolve to Save Lives to provide direct, rapid support to the national and sub-national surveillance teams. PATH collaborates with the DRC to strengthen data collection and analysis, improving decision-making processes to save lives.

What we do
Our key areas of focus
Strengthening digital health for UHC

As a strategic partner of the DRC’s Ministry of Health, PATH is supporting the development of robust, interoperable digital health systems. This includes establishing policy and governance frameworks to protect people’s rights, while enabling data sharing to meet public health objectives, improve service delivery, and increase health worker capacity. These efforts will form the foundation for UHC—one of President Félix Tshisekedi’s key priorities.

Reducing the malaria burden

The DRC has the second highest malaria burden in the world. PATH has been working with the National Malaria Control Program in the DRC since 2007. Our current projects focus on strengthening the availability and use of high-quality data to determine the most appropriate interventions and drive effective decision-making. We are also leveraging the National Emergency Operations Center, using it as a platform for data integration and visualization for malaria surveillance.

Expanding immunization access

From measles outbreak response and yellow fever vaccination campaigns to routine immunization programs and COVID-19 vaccine introduction, PATH is leveraging decades of expertise to expand access to lifesaving vaccinations in the DRC. To ensure sustainable programs and strong systems, PATH is an advocate for vaccine policy, working closely with parliament, advising on budget allocations, and supporting the president’s National Forum on Immunization and Polio Eradication.

Stopping and responding to epidemics

PATH helped establish the first national emergency operations center in the DRC, with funding from the US Centers for Disease Control, from which we worked to strengthen timely data and analytics to bolster disease surveillance and response efforts to multiple Ebola outbreaks. PATH continues to provide support to the DRC’s Ministry of Health on epidemic response, digitization, and outbreak surveillance.

Advancing medical oxygen access

Oxygen is an essential commodity, but its complex production and delivery systems make it difficult to ensure sustainable supplies, especially in settings without stable electricity, trained specialists, and physical access to generation plants. PATH worked with the DRC’s Ministry of Health to assess and quantify their oxygen needs, and then procure oxygen equipment and train health care workers. These efforts are part of a larger initiative to strengthen health systems across the country.

Curbing the HIV/AIDS epidemic

PATH managed the US Agency for International Development flagship HIV projects in the DRC since 2009, strengthening the provision of comprehensive HIV testing, treatment, and prevention services across the country through the ProVIC/ProVIC+ project. In 2017, the Integrated HIV/AIDS Project in Haut-Katanga provided differentiated treatment and care services to 43,000 people living with HIV, 93 percent of whom achieved viral suppression, approaching 95 percent global standard. With funding from The Stop TB Partnership, PATH is now leveraging the HIV and tuberculosis (TB) service delivery platforms in Haut-Katanga province to introduce and iterate novel health care delivery models such as household screening for TB, noncommunicable diseases, and HIV, and enhanced TB treatment adherence support.

Our office

Our office is located in Kinshasa.

119, Blvd du 30 Juin
Immeuble Matrix, 5e niveau
Commune de la Gombe, Kinshasa

We also have an office in Lubumbashi.

16A, avenue Tabiala
Quartier Golf Malela
Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province

Meet our team

  1. Nelly Moleka

    Country Office Representative and Director of Programs

  2. Cyril Mabingo

    Director of Finance and Operations, DRC Country Program

  3. Rova Ratsimandisa

    Senior Technical Lead / DRC Malaria Program Lead

  4. Djeneba Coulibaly

    Senior Technical Lead / Immunization, Health systems delivery

  5. Jimmy Anzolo

    Senior Technical Lead

Partner with us

Strategic partnerships are at the core of what we do in the DRC. Email us to collaborate, invest, or partner today.