Ebola: WFP Increases Food Aid for Patients and Frontline Staff

With 26.5 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) already experiencing severe food insecurity and needs far outpacing the response, the Ebola outbreak arrives at a particularly dangerous time.

In the eastern DRC provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, and Tanganyika, about 10 million people are already experiencing crisis- or emergency-level hunger (IPC 3 and above). Families may get even more hungry as a result of little disturbances.

With an anticipated 1.7 million people—more than a third of the population—facing crisis or worse levels of hunger (IPC 3+), including over 500,000 in IPC4, Ituri is one of the DRC’s most severely food insecure regions in 2026.

Patients, survivors, contacts, and impacted households are receiving life-saving food and nutrition support from the World Food Program.Malnutrition significantly impairs the body’s defenses, making it much harder for vulnerable communities to combat Ebola and raising the risk of serious disease and death.

Ebola was not the cause of food insecurity in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to conflict and displacement, it was already at dangerously high levels, and now Ebola might make it far worse.

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