The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) are working together with the World Health Organization to respond to the current Ebola epidemic.

On May 23, local time, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly held an online press conference to announce a 6-month prevention and response plan for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with a total budget of $319 million, covering all 55 African Union member countries. The press conference identified 10 high-risk countries: South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Zambia, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Angola, Congo, and Burundi. The plan also pointed out that the biggest gap in preventing this Ebola outbreak on the African continent is the lack of approved vaccines and treatment drugs. Therefore, the prevention and control efforts will mainly rely on infection prevention and control, case isolation, contact tracing, and community engagement.