Panzi Hospital
South Kivu hospital founded by Denis Mukwege, tracking sexual-violence cases in eastern DRC.
Panzi Hospital's own intake register recorded 646 sexual-violence survivors in the first six months of 2026, a caseload up 85% on the same period last year, according to figures the hospital released on 30 July.
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Why did Panzi Hospital's sexual-violence caseload rise 85% in six months?
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Registered an 85% rise in sexual-violence survivors
Pandemics and Biosecurity: Panzi logs 646 survivors in six monthsBackground
On 30 July 2026 Panzi Hospital published its intake figures for the first half of the year, logging 646 newly registered survivors of sexual violence and a year-on-year rise of 85% against the same six-month window in 2025 .
The hospital, in South Kivu, DR Congo, treats the increase as evidence of ongoing armed conflict rather than the region's concurrent Ebola outbreak, which is straining the same clinics and staff.
Its intake register has tracked wartime sexual violence continuously for two decades, making it one of the region's few sustained sources of data on the conflict's toll, independent of whichever crisis, war or epidemic, dominates the headlines in a given year.