UN appeals to help contain Ebola outbreak in Uganda
The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal for $11.2 million to help fund Uganda’s response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people in the country. The appeal comes as a US cut in foreign aid has hit Uganda’s health sector budget.
Uganda declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal hemorrhagic disease Ebola after a male nurse died of the virus in January in the capital Kampala. The second fatality was a four-year-old child with Ebola who died in late February.
So far, 10 confirmed cases in Uganda have been linked to the Sudanese strain of Ebola, which has no approved vaccine.
