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Documents reveal WHO paid sexual abuse victims in Congo each $250

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In this July 16, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. [AP Photo]

Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization's efforts to prevent sexual abuse traveled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency's history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly Ebola outbreak.

According to an internal WHO report from Dr Gaya Gamhewage's trip in March, one of the abused women she met gave birth to a baby with "a malformation that required special medical treatment," meaning even more costs for the young mother in one of the world's poorest countries.

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