As Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), visits the epicentre of the Ebola disease outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) made the following statement today. Alan Gonzalez, physician and MSF deputy director of operations Two weeks after the declaration of the Ebola […]
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, people have been living through insecurity and with an under-resourced health system for years. The Ebola disease outbreak due to the Bundibugyo virus — which does not yet have approved vaccines or specific treatments — is posing a major additional challenge. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are […]
Following the official declaration of an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak by the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 15, 2026, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is preparing to rapidly scale up our medical response in Ituri province, in the country’s northeast. On the weekend of May 9 and 10, 2026, MSF received alerts of an increased number of deaths from […]