Ebola treatments trial begins in the Democratic – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda are currently grappling with an Ebola outbreak that has been active since May. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the initiation of a trial aimed at testing potential treatments for the strain responsible for this deadly spread of the disease. This marks a significant step in the global effort to combat the virus, which has claimed over 1,400 confirmed cases and 438 deaths in the DRC alone, according to recent WHO data.

The trial, funded and overseen by the WHO, is being conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale in the DRC, the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium, and the University of Oxford in the UK. These institutions are working together to evaluate two experimental therapeutics, with the first participant having been enrolled in the DRC on…