DRC Ebola outbreak at record pace signals digital health infrastructure demand

The Congo Ebola outbreak has reached its highest first-month case total in any outbreak on record, according to the WHO, creating urgent demand conditions for digital health infrastructure and data systems across Central Africa. The scale of the outbreak reinforces the investment case for health data platforms and telemedicine infrastructure in high-risk regions, extending the health digitisation signals from Uganda's maternal death tracking system. For investors in African digital health, the crisis underscores both the urgency and the addressable market for health emergency response technology.