Ebola: MSF urges the acceptance of three principles to ensure equity in the treatment of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned by the impact of the outbreak of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus.
This outbreak, which was officially declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 15 May 2026, has once again exposed persistent failures to prioritize, fund, and produce accessible medical tools for diseases that disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries.
As the response scales up, MSF is urging donor agencies, governments and research institutions to adopt three principles to ensure equity and the strengthening of further research and development.
Those principles are:
- Affected people, communities and countries must be at the front and centre of R&D and access decisions.
- Ensure enforceable access conditions across R&D governance.
- Transparency and accountability should guide publicly funded response and coordination.
