World Bank-Funded Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience Programme for Ebola

TLDR

• The East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) has launched a six-month emergency intervention at 33 priority points of entry along the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border to prevent the spread.
• The initiative targets high-risk transit countries including Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Angola, Malawi, and Mozambique along 16 major trade and migration corridors.
• The outbreak has recorded 4,945 confirmed cases and 2,325 deaths, with a case fatality rate of 47 percent across 55 health zones in six provinces of the DRC.
• The current outbreak is nearly nine times larger than the 2014-16 West Africa Ebola outbreak and 18 times larger than the 2018-20 Zaire outbreak at the same reporting stage, making it the second-largest and.
• ECSA-HC is equipping frontline border health teams with digital surveillance systems, safe isolation protocols, rapid laboratory transport networks, and cross-border notification systems through the World Bank-funded.