For over two months, on foot, by car, and in dug-out canoes, three Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams scoured the tropical forest of the Republic of Congo to reach the Aka Pygmies, a marginalized people with no access to health care.
The teams' goal was to eradicate from the community an infectious disease called Yaws. They organized a mass treatment campaign where everyone was given a single dose of antibiotic, enough to cure the disease.
More than 17,000 people were treated for yaws, of whom nearly 7,000 were children under the age of 15.
Now it is time for MSF to pass on the baton.
