{"id":238039,"date":"2026-07-03T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-duale-insists-kenya-must-close-ebola-preparedness-gaps-urgently\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:00:55","slug":"kenya-duale-insists-kenya-must-close-ebola-preparedness-gaps-urgently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-duale-insists-kenya-must-close-ebola-preparedness-gaps-urgently\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Duale Insists Kenya Must Close Ebola Preparedness Gaps Urgently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale says structural gaps must be urgently bridged to ensure Kenya&#8217;s total readiness against a regional outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease (BEVD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking during a high-level consultative forum in Nairobi with representatives of the United States Government and key health implementing partners, Duale stressed that the time for conceptual planning has passed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">&#8220;Preparedness must be demonstrated through timely action rather than planning alone,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020484.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale says structural gaps must be urgently bridged to ensure Kenya&#8217;s total readiness against a regional outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease (BEVD). Speaking during a high-level consultative forum in Nairobi with representatives of the United States Government and key health implementing partners, Duale stressed that the time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6748,13536,1111,10441,8191,4688,430,257,11403,254,8907],"class_list":["post-238039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-close","tag-duale","tag-ebola","tag-gaps","tag-insists","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-preparedness","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgently"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}