BARDA urged to share potential Ebola treatment with global outbreak response

Public Citizen, Health Global Access Project, and eight organizations sent a letter to the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the Department of Health and Human Services urging the US government to share candidate Ebola Bundibugyo therapeutics that it has in its possession and coordinate with the World Health Organization, Africa CDC, affected-country governments, medical humanitarian organizations and international and civil society to address current and future outbreaks.

The current Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak is caused by a less common strain of Ebola, for which there are no approved therapeutics, vaccines, or rapid tests. There are, however, promising candidate treatments that the World Health Organization has recommended for testing in emergency clinical trials.