Declan Walsh
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486 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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The other point that aid workers brought up is that the US was providing a lot of funding for general humanitarian aid in the Congo.
And some of that money went to funding small Congolese groups
And they weren't all necessarily working in health.
They might have been just community organizations.
But the fact of their existence provided a network that could be activated at short notice in response to a crisis.
And now that network really just wasn't available when it was needed this time.
Yes.
I mean, the aid machine has started up and the experts are coming into this area.
Aid is starting to arrive.
But then it turns out that there is another obstacle to pushing back this outbreak.
And that's the fact that many of the people in some of the worst affected communities have a deep mistrust for the people who are trying to save them.
Look, a huge obstacle to fighting this outbreak has been the fact that a lot of people in these communities are still in denial about the virus.
Either they don't accept that it exists at all, or they see it as somehow a curse.
or they see it as a conspiracy theory.
When we were there, we heard so many stories about how people saw this disease as some sort of conspiracy between doctors in the local hospital and these foreign aid groups who they thought were bringing this disease to the community.
In fact, it was a story that we heard that Doctors Without Borders, which
had jeeps that have extremely high antennas sticking out of the roof that doctors without borders were using those antennas to somehow spread the disease among the community now
There is, strangely enough, I think, a sort of logical explanation for this.
And that goes like this.
This community had been grappling with this wave of mysterious deaths until this outbreak was finally detected and declared.
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