Content_paragraphs:  With the support of the humanitarian country team, the Government elaborated
  
  a three-month $40.6 million multisectoral response plan to the Ebola outbreak, of
  
  which an estimated $19.4 million remained unfunded by the end of August. Since
  
  then, donors have expressed interest in increasing funding to the response plan, which
  
  is currently being revised. The plan is aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of the
  
  health response, interrupting the transmission of Ebola and COVID-19 in Equateur
  
  and preventing their spread to other provinces and neighbouring countries. Drawing
  
  on lessons from the previous outbreak in the eastern part of the country, humanitarian
  
  actors adopted strategies to prevent the fraudulent activities that had weakened the
  
  previous Ebola response. The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization
  
  (WHO) are working with other partners to address the increased risks faced by women
  
  and children as a result of the epidemic. Insufficient funding and lack of decentralized
  
  access to testing and treatment are among the major challenges hampering the
  
  response to the current Ebola outbreak.