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CEO @Gavi, Former Spl Assistant of the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation, Federal Minister, and Senator, Pakistan. Global health advocate.
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Financial innovation can deliver a Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine

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By Sania Nishtar
| Nature Verified
A stronger pipeline of candidate vaccines is needed for epidemic and pandemic threats. As the Ebola disease outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus (BVD) continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), it is natural to ask why. Why, 10 years since the worst recorded outbreak of Ebola was brought to an end after ravaging the three West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, are we facing this new outbreak without an effective vaccine?
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Ebola shows us the importance of resilience as much as response

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By Sania Nishtar
| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
There have been nine declared Public Health Emergencies of International Concern since WHO members adopted the 2005 International Health Regulations. Of those nine, three have started in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past eight years alone: Ebola in 2018–2020, mpox in 2024, and Ebola again today.
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Collaboration will be key in race for vaccine to control rare Ebola strain

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By Sania Nishtar, Richard Hatchett
| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
The latest Ebola disease outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus that is unfolding in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has already caused over 100 deaths and spread across at least one international border. With no approved vaccines or therapies, we must be realistic as to the challenges of containing this rapidly evolving health emergency in an active conflict zone.
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