11th of January 2023, the Ministry of Health of Uganda declared the end of the seventh Ebola outbreak that started on 20th of September 2022 in the country. In total, 142 people were confirmed as having Ebola during the period. 87 people recovered from the disease while 55 died. The Case Fatality...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started an Ebola emergency response in Uganda, after the outbreak has been declared on September 20th. The teams are involved in supporting the Ministry of Health (MOH) in case management and are doing health promotion, a major pillar in fighting the disease. Outreach...
Since September 20, 2022, the day the Ebola epidemic was declared in Uganda, MSF has been working alongside the Ministry of Health to support medical care in the country. As of October 23, 90 patients were confirmed with Ebola and 28 people were reported to have died from the disease. Another 32...
Since the declaration of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda on 20 September (and as of 2 October 2022), the Ugandan Ministry of Health has confirmed 43 cases of Ebola and reported 29 deaths (nine confirmed deaths from the disease and 20 probable). MSF is working with the Ministry of Health to set up an...
Immediately after the declaration of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which followed the detection of an infected person in the centre of the country, the Ministry of Health asked Médecins Sans Frontières to support its efforts in the fight against the spread of the disease. On Wednesday 21 September,...
On 29 September, a Ugandan man, aged about thirty and presenting symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, died in a hospital in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. On 4th October, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the man's blood tests had revealed contamination by Marburg fever...
An emergency response to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has come to an end. The MSF team handed over the Ebola treatment centre it had set up in Uganda’s western Kibaale district to the Ugandan Ministry of Health. After the outbreak was declared in late-July, MSF’s...
The response to the Ebola epidemic that broke out at the end of July in Western Uganda is moving forward thanks to the joint effort of MSF, the Ugandan Ministry of Health and other bodies. In approximately one week, the MSF emergency team has set up an Ebola treatment centre, has isolated the...
An emergency team from MSF has set up a treatment centre for Ebola in Kagadi, western Uganda, where 24 suspected cases have already been admitted. So far the outbreak has claimed the lives of 17 people. MSF staff have also put in place control measures to prevent the epidemic spreading further, and...
Outbreaks of Ebola are rare, but for Dr. Olimpia de la Rosa, MSF’s emergency coordinator, dealing with the disease is nothing new. The last time Ebola hit Uganda, in 2007, she supported an MSF team fighting the outbreak. Five years later, MSF’s emergency response is again in full swing as teams...
