In reality, as an Ebola outbreak continues in Uganda, the aid response from the United States has been severely curtailed by the destruction of the country’s largest foreign aid arm—and other ...
Uganda has traditionally relied heavily on the U.S. for its health sector funding. During the last Ebola outbreak in 2022-2023, the United States provided $34 million to fund case management, ...
Then, amid rising public concern that an Ebola outbreak in Africa could leapfrog to the US, Elon Musk took his chainsaw to the most prominent US experts on the disease. “We won’t be perfect.
More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.
Because the section at WHO that handles emergencies and outbreaks was largely created at the behest of—and under pressure from—the US government after Ebola in 2014. And we are the principal f ...
and we must remember the importance of preparing for epidemics both in the United States and abroad. In this excerpt, I look at the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the intense lockdowns that came with it.
The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than ... under threat as NGOs that used to be funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have been ...