In Uganda, the virus is spreading in urban areas and among sexual networks, posing contact tracing challenges.

There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola.

The €1 million contribution will be utilized to support key areas of the WHO-led response, including surveillance, infection prevention and control, and risk communication for affected communities.

The success of Uganda's Ebola response hinged on the rapid formation of a national coordination committee. Within hours of the outbreak's declaration on January 30, 2025, the MoH assembled a response ...

Ireland’s Minister for International Development and Diaspora, Neale Richmond TD, has announced €1 million contribution to ...

Violence that began in Juba has spread beyond the capital, now affecting six of the ten states of South Sudan, including areas already facing ethnic issues. (Photo: ©UE/ECHO/Ludovico Gammarelli ...

The Sudan virus outbreak, a rare and dangerous disease closely related to Ebola, has affected multiple districts in Uganda.

Dr Kasonde Mwinga, WHO Representative to Uganda, said “WHO appreciates the trust from the embassy of Ireland in WHO by ...

The aid cuts could not have come at a worse time. The implementation of Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed by President Salva Kiir ...

How should continental vaccine manufacturers handle complex dynamics of supply and demand? ANALYSIS | The African Union has ...

Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda's Ebola outbreak "accidentally" ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has met with South Sudanese officials as concerns grow over a potential resurgence of civil war following the house arrest of the country’s main opposition leader.