UK Will Provide $2.5 Million to Support Uganda’s Ebola Response
- Funds will go to WHO, Unicef and World Food Programme
- Uganda detected the Sudan strain of Ebola on Sept. 20
Red Cross workers prior to burying a suspected Ebola victim in Mubende, Uganda, on Oct. 13.
Photographer: Luke Dray/Getty Images
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The UK will provide 2.2 million pounds ($2.5 million) to support Uganda’s response to an outbreak of Ebola in the East African country.
Of that amount, 400,000 pounds will go to the World Health Organization and 900,000 pounds each to the United Nations Children’s Fund, known as Unicef, and the World Food Programme, the British High Commission in Kampala said in an emailed statement on Friday. The UK government has also provided an expert on case management to support the WHO in Uganda.