The State Department announced Friday nearly $38 million in additional funding to support the U.S. response to an Ebola outbreak in Congo and neighboring Uganda, bringing the State Department’s total contributions for the effort to more than $200 million.
The department said the new money will expand contact tracing, border and airport screening, supplies for health clinics, community education campaigns to counter misinformation, safe and dignified burials, diagnostic capacity, and food assistance for patients and health workers.
Partners on the initiatives include the International Organization for Migration, UNICEF, World Vision, International Medical Corps, and others, who are carrying out the effort on the ground….