Ebola Funding Need to Triple as International Risk Escalates

World Health Organization response requires extra $324 million
Major Ebola outbreak in 2014-16 cost West Africa $53 billion

A motor taxi driver gets his hands washed at an Ebola screening station in Goma on July 16.
Photographer: John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images

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By Jason Gale

July 23, 2019 at 4:28 AM UTC

Updated on

July 23, 2019 at 5:42 AM UTC

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The Ebola emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo will require about three times more money than currently provided, the United Nations agency leading the public-health response said.

The World Health Organization estimates $324 million is needed to fund its response and preparedness in the Africa region over the next six months. Additional funds will be required to support other functions outside the WHO’s remit to help stop transmission of the deadly hemorrhagic virus, the Geneva-based agency said in an email Tuesday.