Annette Young welcomes Julie Drouet, DRC Director for Action Against Hunger. She offers a sobering assessment of the early Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speaking from the frontline of a rapidly evolving health emergency, Drouet describes a humanitarian system racing against time in one of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected regions. They are not only facing epidemiological challenges of containing Ebola, but also the deeper structural vulnerabilities tha