Ebola

• 📌 🗓️ [SAVE THE DATE] Wednesday, 26 August 2026
  
  Ebola is once again testing health systems in eastern DRC, in communities already living with conflict and fragile services. The people leading that response are doing so in a global health landscape that has changed profoundly: financing is being reconfigured, donor commitments have contracted, and the surveillance, treatment and workforce arrangements that Africa has relied on for two decades can no longer be assumed. This webinar looks at what it takes to respond to Ebola, and to prepare for the next pandemic, under those conditions. It examines the rights implications of the current outbreak, the operational realities facing clinicians and health authorities, and the legal and political tools available to hold responses to account. The intention is not simply to document how difficult the situation is, but to ask what comes next: how African institutions, courts, health authorities and researchers build durable pandemic capacity of their own, what governments and international health actors must do to protect patients, health workers and affected communities, and how lessons from the DRC can inform more equitable and accountable outbreak responses across the continent.     

• Register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/53e7d28a-89db-4ca2-9b43-565e9728eb93@249368b9-e61e-4ec4-9311-69036831c676?source=copyLinkLegacyShareLinkDialog

• Ebola epidemic in the DRC: My observations & reflections by Professor Salim Abdool Karim. This follows Professor Abdool Karim's trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on behalf of the Africa CDC, in June 2026. Access the full report in PDF here. Access the full report in PowerPoint here.

• The World Health Organisation declared Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It's recommendations on how countries should respond is available here: https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern

• The Africa CDC declared this outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain a public health emergency of continental concern. It releases situation reports on cases which are available here: https://africacdc.org/download/situation-report-bundibugyo-virus-disease-outbreak-in-the-drc-and-uganda/

• The NICD has issued important guidance on reporting and testing for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebolavirus. https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/bundibugyo-virus-disease/

• The US CDC is aggregating data from Ministries of Health in the DRC and Uganda to provide updated figures on the outbreak. The latest figures released are available here: https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/situation-summary/index.html

Media Interviews

• Urgent Global Virus Network Media Briefing: Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• TRT World - Race to contain rare Ebola strain in war-torn DRC
• Sky News - Ebola Outbreak. Who declares international emergency?
• Newzroom Afrika - South Africa urged to be alert for possible virus outbreak
• SABC News 404 - WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency

Print Articles

• Trials of medical countermeasures to begin in DR Congo
• Reuters - 'Breakneck' Ebola epidemic in Congo outpaces world's response
• The New York Times - Efforts to Contain Ebola May Have Been Hindered by Lack of U.S. Involvement
• Science - Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak