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How USAID cuts left DRC unprepared for Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the midst of the third-largest Ebola outbreak on record. For years, the U.S. sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the African country for infectious disease prevention and control programs. But in the months before the outbreak began, the Trump administration slashed aid. New reporting from STAT’s Daniel Payne shows that the move probably hampered the detection of the outbreak and the response to it.
“Politicians control budgets; budgets control lives. That is the painful reality,” said one person who has worked in the region and spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
