Global Health
After 19 months, the end is in sight for Ebola in the DRC
As the world struggles to contain COVID-19 coronavirus, the Democratic Republic of Congo has released its last Ebola patient. What lessons can be learned from their success?
Professor Yap Boum II is the regional representative for Epicenter Africa, the research arm of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), known also as Doctors Without Borders. He is currently based in Yaoundé, Cameroon. From 2009 to 2014, Boum headed the Epicenter’s research base in Mbarara, Uganda, leading research projects that included tuberculosis and malaria. Most recently, in Democratic Republic of Congo, he was involved in the Ebola outbreak and the use of the Ebola vaccine for MSF/Epicenter of the Ebola.
