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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has boosted Uganda’s Ebola efforts with a donation of 5.5 Billion shillings. The committed funds will be spent in supporting the Ministry of Health conduct surveillance at its border with Democratic Republic of Congo. Patricia Rader, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bwera hospital was overstretched by the pressures exerted onto the facility by recent outbreak of Ebola in the area. Bwera hospital hosts the Ebola Treatment unit (ETU) in Kasese district, an area that shares a common border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda can leverage its Ebola emergency preparedness activities to help the country meet its other healthcare targets like increased immunization coverage, improved maternal health and HIV prevention, according to a health policy expert. Dr. Solome Okware, the Technical Advisor Policy at the Infectious Diseases Institute …

  Goma, DR Congo | AFP |  UN chief Antonio Guterres started a three-day tour of the Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, expressing “solidarity” with a region ravaged by violence and an Ebola epidemic. The secretary general first visited Goma, the capital of North Kivu province which is trying to …

Mpondwe, Uganda | AFP |  Before dawn, Congolese teenager Doneka Kabowo sets off for school in Uganda, negotiating miles of jungle, the threat of armed militias and an international border to reach her classroom. Every weekday morning, yet another obstacle stands in the way of 15-year-old Kabowo and hundreds of other …

Beni, DR Congo | AFP |  The Ebola outbreak showed no signs of easing in DR Congo Friday on the eve of the UN chief’s visit to the country, with the death toll from the highly contagious virus crossing 2,000 and a new fatality in neighbouring Uganda. The latest casualty …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 9-year-old Congolese girl has succumbed to Ebola in Kasese. The victim had travelled to Uganda on Wednesday from Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC to receive treatment for Ebola. She was identified at the Mpondwe border crossing before being admitted to the Ebola Treatment Unit …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has confirmed a new Ebola case in Kasese, Uganda. Bwera town is located in Kasese district, situated 472 km west of Kampala. A nine-year-old girl who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo has been found to have Ebola, authorities …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has extended Uganda’s Ebola response plan due to lack of funding. The Ebola response plan was supposed to end in September 2019, but has now been extended to the end of December 2019 due to lack of funds as the Ministry waits …

How African researchers are tackling Ebola HEALTH | YAP BOUM | In August 2015 Dr Sakoba Keita, who led the Ebola response in Guinea during the largest Ebola outbreak the world has ever seen, declared: “The Ebola vaccine is a gift from Guinea to West Africa and the world”. This …