KAMPALA — On Jan. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly cut funding for the surveillance of and response to an outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus here. Elon Musk, Trump’s unelected right ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan ...

Elon Musk said USAID's "Ebola prevention" was "accidentally canceled" but "immediately" restored. Health specialists following the current outbreak in Uganda raise doubts about the restoration.

This week, the United Nations started an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help Uganda contain the Ebola outbreak, as U.S. aid cuts strain the nation’s health budget.

USAID had more than 50 staffers dedicated to outbreak response, but recent cuts left just six people to handle Ebola, Marburg virus, mpox and bird flu preparedness.

A study published Monday found that the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could result in more ...

“Elon Musk has left Washington, but he leaves a legacy of suffering because Trump let him dismantle USAID, which did enormous ...

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 ...

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, ... adequate funding in the wake of the U.S. administration’s decision to terminate 60% of USAID’s foreign aid ...

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll.

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