Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visits health workers at the Evangelical Medical Centre (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 31, 2026. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption
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Healthcare workers participate in a simulation exercise in Uganda, practicing how to conduct a safe and dignified burial for a deceased Ebola patient. Leonard Musinguzi hide caption
Porous borders, misinformation and aid cuts pose challenges for fighting Ebola
School children walk through the shallows past submerged and abandoned school buildings at the El Molo Bay primary school in Komote, Kenya. Teachers at the school say the buildings have become a breeding ground for crocodiles. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
Congolese police stand guard at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo that was attacked by local villagers. Efforts are underway to defuse the anger that has arisen from untrue rumors and mistrust of medical authorities. Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters hide caption
Doctors in DRC work to dissuade traditional funeral practices amid Ebola outbreak
July 1, 2025. Sirajganj, Bangladesh Mothers who lacked birth certificates for themselves and family members hold up the newly obtained documents after a drive in Dhamainagar Union, part of a campaign to get people to register so they are eligible for social safety new programs. Juan Arredondo hide caption
A health worker in protective equipment carries out safe burial procedures beside the coffin of a suspected Ebola victim outside a family home in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 24, 2026. Michel Lunanga/Getty Images hide caption
“Catastrophic collision of disease and conflict”: Ebola grips eastern Congo
A clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, disperses anti-HIV medications. Its work has been supported by the U.S. PEPFAR program. But now, nearly all U.S. foreign assistance has been paused, eliminated or changed since President Trump took office last year. Foto24/Gallo Images via Getty Images/Gallo Images Editorial hide caption
How a health clinic in South Africa is navigating Trump's cuts to HIV funding
Vanny Birungi, a Red Cross volunteer, speaks to people during a public sensitisation campaign amid the Ebola outbreak in Bunia, Congo, Monday, May 25, 2026. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption
Red Cross workers bury an Ebola victim at the Rwampara Cemetery, in Rwampara, Congo, May 23, 2026. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption
DR Congo Ebola cases rise amid distrust, armed conflict zone
Thirteen-month-old Jannat cries as her mother Sohana, a garment worker, tries to feed her. The child is hospitalized for measles at DNCC Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Anik Rahman for NPR hide caption
This photo, from a series of pictures by two anonymous cousins, is entitled "The Music of Poverty and Violence." The subject is playing an automatic weapon as if it were a string instrument. Mahnaz Ebrahimi|January 2026 hide caption
Singer-songwriter Mo Sabri loves country music — and Pakistani devotional music. His new music reflects both genres. Mo Sabri hide caption
As travelers entered the Entebbe International Airport in Uganda on May 21, they were screened with a thermal camera that detects their temperature. Pictured at bottom is reporter Michal Ruprecht. Michal Ruprecht for NPR hide caption
All U.S. passengers returning from Ebola-affected countries must arrive at one airport
Six-year-old Farzana was a child bride, pledged by her father to a 13-year-old boy for a sum equivalent to approximately $60. After repeated appeals from Farzana's mother, tribal chiefs intervened and raised enough money to buy Farzana back and stop the marriage. Kate Geraghty/Fairfax Media/via Getty Images hide caption
Despite public smoking bans in a number of Chinese cities, smoking is still a big thing — mainly among men. Johannes Eisele/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption
Aid cuts may have slowed identification of current Ebola outbreak
Family members of people who died of Ebola stand next to coffins at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption
People in protective masks wait in the corridor of a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne/AP hide caption
A poster displaying Ebola emergency contact numbers is pinned to a tent at the Busunga border crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bundibugyo, on Monday. Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Refugees carry food at a distribution center run by the World Food Programme at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana, Kenya. After U.S. aid that paid for the food was curtailed, protests broke out. Andrew Kasuku/AP hide caption
To keep Ebola from spreading in this current outbreak, a border health officer at the Busunga crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo checks a traveler's temperature using a contactless infrared thermometer on May 18. Badru Katumba/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption
Ambulances are parked outside a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, May 16, 2026. Constant Same Bagalwa/AP hide caption
A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but the pachyderms have figured out how to manipulate the wooden fence poles to lay the wires flat and then step over them. Brent Stirton/Getty Images/Reportage Archive hide caption