Africa CDC, WHO chiefs to visit DRC’s Ebola epicenter to accelerate response

ADDIS ABABA, July 11– Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director-General Jean Kaseya and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are set to visit the epicenter of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) next week, as part of a joint mission aimed at accelerating outbreak response.

This came after a meeting between heads of the two organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, where discussions focused on the continued Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in the DRC and Uganda, as well as the “urgent action required on the ground,” Kaseya said Saturday in a statement issued on X, formerly Twitter.