The United States is sending another $267 million to fight the Ebola outbreak in Congo, bringing total U.S. aid for the outbreak to $887 million, the State Department announced Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
A doctor administers serum to a patient with Ebola virus disease at the Rwampara Ebola Treatment Centre in Bunia, Ituri Province, in northeastern Congo, on July 13, 2026. Benediction Murhabazi/AFP via Getty ImagesThe outbreak, first detected in Congo's Ituri province in May before spreading to Uganda, has killed at least 3,700 people as of the U.N.'s Sept. 22 count. That makes it the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, behind the 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa.
The new money fulfills a G7 pledge of up to an additional $500 million, and it came with a message for everyone else. The State Department urged other "capable nations to increase burden sharing to meet the urgency of the moment." The U.N.'s $2.13 billion response plan is only 48 percent funded, leaving a gap of roughly $1.1 billion.
As The Epoch Times notes further, the $887 million in direct aid for the Ebola outbreak is on top of existing U.S. contributions to international aid through the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Since the start of the second Trump administration, U.S. contributions to OCHA's aid programs across 21 key countries have reached $3.8 billion.
A $2 million first tranche contribution was agreed to in December 2025 when the Trump administratio
