Congo’s Ebola outbreak is exposing the impact of shrinking global health funding as hospitals struggle with shortages of medicine, masks and surveillance capacity

Rachel Hagan speaks to health workers and aid groups about how difficult it is to stop an outbreak that took weeks to confirm in a country where hospitals and health centres…

At the hospital in Rwampara, one of the epicentres of a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a simple plastic strip marked off the isolation centre for…

BUNIA, Congo: Anxious health care workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the…

Congo’s Ebola outbreak is exposing the impact of shrinking global health funding as hospitals struggle with shortages of medicine, masks and surveillance capacity

WHO said the global risk is low

Healthcare workers and aid groups in eastern Congo have appealed for more supplies and staff to respond to the outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, as armed groups continued to…

There is no available vaccine or medicine for the Bundibugyo strain responsible for the outbreak, which spread undetected for weeks.

As a deadly Ebola outbreak tears through northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo, many first responders are turning a critical eye on events that preceded the crisis: layoffs…

The World Health Organization says more than a hundred deaths are thought to be linked to this outbreak, with nearly 600 suspected cases so far.

The World Health Organization says more than 170 deaths are thought to be linked to this outbreak, with nearly 750 suspected cases so far.

New strain of virus, aid cuts and cultural norms around burials and touch add to difficulties in stemming outbreak

The World Bank is deploying emergency resources and preparing rapid financing for Congo’s Ebola outbreak as WHO declares a global health emergency and fears grow over regional…

With cases spreading across provinces and borders, authorities are struggling with shortages, weak contact tracing, and the absence of an approved vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain