#Ebola Countermeasures

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has appealed to the U.S. government to lift temporary Ebola-related travel restrictions on Uganda. Africa CDC Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya emphasized that Uganda has successfully contained the virus, tracking no new cases since late June 2026, and urged scientific evidence over broad travel penalties.

President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that Uganda has gone five days without a new Ebola case, using a live national address to ban handshakes and demand strict public discipline to completely eliminate the outbreak.

Uganda will construct four emergency medical camps inside the Democratic Republic of Congo to treat Ebola patients at the source, a strategy backed by the WHO after Uganda canceled the Namugongo Martyrs Day celebrations to avert a regional health crisis.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has praised Uganda's aggressive border screening and medical surveillance systems for successfully containing a potential Ebola outbreak along the DRC border.

The EAC Ministers of Health have formed a Regional Technical Taskforce to synchronize screening protocols at all border entry points to combat the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. Backed by a EUR 1 million fund from Germany’s KfW, the partner states are deploying mobile laboratories to containing zones across Uganda and the DRC.

An Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft has delivered 43 tonnes of emergency medical and diagnostic kits to Entebbe Airport to bolster the Africa CDC's regional Ebola response. Handed over by High Commissioner Upender Singh Rawat, the supplies will be forwarded via Uganda's NMS to support the active Bundibugyo Ebola virus intervention in the DRC.