Uganda ends Ebola outbreak following completion of 42-day countdown
Addis Ababa/Brazzaville/Geneva, 27 August 2026 – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today welcomed the end of the Ebola outbreak due to Bundibugyo species in Uganda. This follows 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case since the country’s last patient, an imported case, was […]
Africa CDC and WHO call for urgent, community-led action to contain Ebola in the DRC
KINSHASA, 6 August 2026 – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers […]