Medical staff providing treatment in MSF-supported Bolomba Ebola treatment center, Equateur province, DRC, August 2020 Photo credit: Franck Ngonga/MSF

Ebola: the diagnostic blind spot

Photo credit: Franck Ngonga/MSF
Medical staff providing treatment in MSF-supported Bolomba Ebola treatment center, Equateur province, DRC, August 2020 Photo credit: Franck Ngonga/MSF

The 2026 Ebola disease outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda revealed a critical diagnostic blind spot in existing Ebola surveillance and testing systems.

At MSF Access, we work to change that.

As the response scales up, it is critical to apply lessons learned from past epidemics, including COVID-19 and previous Ebola disease outbreaks. 

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