Modern day congo article 2

I got very lucky and was interested in the first two articles that were on the NY Times web page. What really caught my eye on this one was the picture of the young child who is so malnourished that his ribs are protruding from his sides. This article was entitled "Congo’s Death Rate Unchanged Since War Ended" and the author is Lydia Polgreen. This article highlights the fact that even after billions of dollars have been put into rebuilding the Congo, nearly 45,000 people die every month from disease and sickness alone. Although the violence from the war has decreased, the total deaths in some places, such as in Central Congo, have actually increased. It discusses how it takes a country much longer than would would assume to recover from such a destructive event such as a war. Less than half of the deaths were caused by violence, showing that sometimes "the after math of war is sometimes more deadly that combat itself". Were the diseases that these people are dying from caused from the "invaders" from different countries? Were they the ones brining it in, kind of like the Europeans bringing in the disease when Leopold was in charge? Have those diseases been destroyed or were these new ones just adding to the old ones that were never taken care of? The Congolese government spends a measly $15 a year on health care for each citizen, and obviously this has hindered them. Maybe the government should have been focusing more on the health of the people instead of purely on the physical violence being presented by the invaders. If disease is taking out more people than violence, then this obviously a sign that the death tolls are rising due to the face that the government is ignoring the state in which their people are in. SHould the government have spent more time/money attempting to give people immunizations and antibiotics instead of focusing purely on force WOuld this help the death total and decrease the number of lives that are being lost in the congo every month due to the peoples poor health?