In 2025, Sudan recorded 1,620 deaths in attacks on medical facilities, accounting for 82% of all global deaths from attacks on healthcare worldwide

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Armed conflict, population displacement, and access constraints in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are severely hindering contact tracing and response efforts, according to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The original World Health Organization Pandemic Agreement negotiations repeatedly collided with geopolitical tensions, including wars and the United States' withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

The Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate documented arrests, assaults, harassment, disappearances, and killings of doctors and health workers during the Sudanese conflict.

The Sudanese Armed Forces reported repelling an attack by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North in the southeastern Blue Nile state on September 20, 2026.

The Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate warned that Sudan's health system is nearing collapse due to disease, poor sanitation, overcrowding, and destroyed medical infrastructure.

The conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023 has killed tens of thousands and displaced approximately 13 million people, according to UN estimates.

An additional 36 health facilities serving more than 400,000 people in Sudan are closing in 2026 due to global aid funding cuts

Funding cuts and clinic closures are forcing Sudanese patients to undertake long, costly, and dangerous journeys to access remaining medical treatment facilities

International Rescue Committee director for East Sudan, Mohammed Mahdi, stated that bridge funding to keep a small number of facilities running is only expected to last through September 2026

Ali Almohammed, MSF emergency health manager, reported that measles has reached a major outbreak level in Darfur, with approximately 75% of patients being unvaccinated

The civil war that erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced approximately 13 million

By September 2024, the World Health Organization reported that up to 70% to 80% of health facilities in Sudan's worst-hit conflict areas were closed or barely functioning

Funding cuts are forcing the closure of 36 International Rescue Committee-supported facilities and sites, cutting off essential services for an estimated 473,700 people

The United States has allocated $512 million to the Ebola outbreak response and $350 million to humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Evrebo vaccine is being administered to front-line health workers, though there is no conclusive evidence it protects against the Bundibugyo Ebola strain

The Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which began in mid-May 2026, has killed nearly 3,200 people among more than 6,500 cases

Ebola burial teams in Ituri province have faced physical attacks from bereaved families frustrated by the prohibition of traditional African burial rituals

Efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak are hindered by a lack of approved vaccines or treatments specifically targeting the rare Bundibugyo virus strain

Front-line health workers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have gone on multiple strikes to demand unpaid wages for their work in containing the Ebola outbreak