Lack of funds, delay in vaccine trials put more Ugandans at risk of Ebola infection

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Uganda’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng (left) talking to doctors and nurses on October 27, 2022. Insufficient resources to deal with the Ebola outbreak and to conduct vaccine trials are putting more lives at risk in Uganda where the virus continues to spread more than a month after the outbreak. PHOTO | BADRU KATUMBA | AFP

Insufficient resources to deal with the Ebola outbreak and to conduct vaccine trials are putting more lives at risk in Uganda where the virus continues to spread more than a month after the outbreak.

Health authorities had said they will deploy trial vaccines for frontline medical personnel to stem spread of the virus, but this has not been implemented three and a half weeks later.