#global-health
9 posts tagged global-health.
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Ebola reaches Kampala and the world is unprepared
The Bundibugyo strain's spread from eastern DRC to Uganda's capital reveals how systematically dismantled global health infrastructure now faces its most serious test in a generation.
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Ebola's new math: 906 cases, no vaccine
The Bundibugyo strain's rapid spread through eastern DRC and into Uganda, with a 30–50% fatality rate and no available vaccine, tests whether a hollowed global health architecture can contain a genuine catastrophe.
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Ebola meets war: the DRC's catastrophic collision
The WHO warns that war in eastern Congo is turning an Ebola outbreak into an uncontrollable catastrophe — and the hollowing of global health institutions has left us poorly equipped to respond.
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Ebola outpaces the response in Congo
With 900-plus suspected cases, hospital attacks, and a WHO director-general warning that containment is losing the race, the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo reveals what gutted global health institutions actually cost.
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Ebola crosses the Uganda border
The Ebola outbreak's confirmed spillover from eastern Congo into Uganda exposes the cost of gutted international health institutions and the dangerous gap between WHO alarm and actual containment capacity.
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Ebola triples: the cost of dismantling preparedness
The DRC Ebola outbreak's explosive growth — from 246 cases to 750 in a single week — is a direct consequence of the systematic dismantling of the US global health infrastructure that was built precisely to prevent this.
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Ebola, travel bans, and the public health withdrawal
Washington's travel ban on travellers from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan is the symptom of a deeper problem: the US has dismantled the infrastructure that would allow it to actually stop this outbreak rather than just wall it out.
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Rubio blames WHO while gutting CDC
The Ebola outbreak in DRC exposes a dangerous contradiction: Washington criticises the WHO for being slow while simultaneously dismantling the domestic public-health infrastructure that would allow the US to respond.
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WHO's Ebola emergency and the governance gap
The DRC Ebola declaration reveals how decades of Western-led crisis management has failed to build durable local health institutions in conflict zones.