How funding cuts to USAID are impacting the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

from Weekend Edition Sunday · host Dianna Douglas

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dennis Carroll, PhD. about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and how funding cuts to USAID have affected the response.

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