RAMY INOCENCIO:
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But last year, the Trump administration gutted USAID, tens of billions of dollars in funding worldwide. Every doctor, aid worker, and official told us that's meant a delayed response to this outbreak and shortfalls in medicine, fuel, and staff. 57 children under five years old. And they showed us. This is the New York-based International Rescue Committee's Ebola operations in Uganda, right along the DRC border. --going on right now. Elijah Okeyo is its Uganda director. We had a number of staff who were working in service delivery. Now we only have about 300 staff. A cut of 1,000 people. And it's not just people. It's funding to run a refugee camp, like the sprawling Kiryandongo settlement with nearly 170,000 people. Nice to meet you. Vincent Amaruma oversees it. How much was cut in terms of a percentage? Was it 20% cut? Was it a 50% cut? Around 70%. How has that hurt you? There were no enough drugs, for example. If you get exposed, if you--
RAMY INOCENCIO:
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Down the road, Ebola educator Simon Opiyo with Uganda's health ministry says one in five refugees here don't even believe it's of this world. People are being bewitched. How do you combat that? With facts about the disease.
RAMY INOCENCIO:
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Africa's CDC says this Ebola crisis is on track to be the worst in history. And that's because tens of thousands of people over in the DRC who have come into contact with positive cases have not yet been traced. And, Jericka, one out of every four people who have contracted this Bundibugyo strain of Ebola have died.
JERICKA DUNCAN:
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Ramy Inocencio, thank you so much.
