Uganda Urges US to Rethink Funding Cuts as It Battles Ebola

Uganda urged the US and other partners to reverse deep cuts to global health funding, warning the pullback may hamper efforts to contain imported Ebola cases linked to an outbreak in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sudden reductions in support for disease surveillance and healthcare programs have left African countries more exposed to epidemics, especially rare Ebola strains that lack approved vaccines or treatments, Information Minister Chris Baryomunsi said Thursday.

“The reduction should have been gradual,” Baryomunsi, a public health specialist said in an interview from the capital, Kampala. The cuts — most of which were announced last year — ...