US announces $242 million in new Ebola funding
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August 5, 2026
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) announced Wednesday that it had allocated more than $242 million in additional funding to combat the worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The new funding brings direct US financial assistance in response to the outbreak to more than $500 million, the State Department said in a statement, underlining that the United States remained “the largest financial contributor to the Ebola response.”
Washington called on other countries to increase their contributions to efforts to combat the disease.
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