Ebola control in DRC and Uganda now depends on access as much as medicine

Published by Albis · 29 May 2026

The DRC-Uganda Ebola outbreak is testing health systems in conflict-affected areas, with border controls, travel screening and response logistics becoming central to containing the Bundibugyo strain

• • Disease control is becoming inseparable from security access, making outbreak management a conflict-governance issue as much as a medical one.
• • Public-health transmission chain.
• • The Ebola outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has been confirmed in Ituri, Nord-Kivu and Sud-Kivu provinces, with related cases reported in Uganda’s.
• • As of May 29, DRC had reported 906 suspected cases, 125 confirmed cases, 223 suspected deaths and 17 confirmed deaths.