Muganga is a health technology company based in Bukavu, South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Muganga means 'the one who heals' in Swahili. We build the infrastructure that lets African health systems digitise and use their own clinical data and then the AI tools that sit on top of it.

What do you actually build?

Two things that hold together. First the infrastructure: turning paper clinical archives into structured datasets the facility owns and can query. Then the tools that become possible once that data is readable starting with Riposte, our epidemic response platform, then Griot and CORETX.

What is Muganga Riposte?

Riposte is an epidemic response platform. It tracks an outbreak in real time, coordinates the logistics it demands kits, equipment, capacity, teams and connects front-line providers to hospitals, health zones and the authorities. It is deployed today in DR Congo with Panzi Hospital, against the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic.

Is Riposte only for Ebola?

No. Riposte follows epidemic and syndemic events across the continent cholera, mpox, Lassa, measles, diphtheria, polio with the source and date behind every figure. Bundibugyo Ebola is simply the outbreak the platform is deployed against right now, and the one that shaped it.

Is Muganga a medical device or a diagnostic tool?

No. Nothing we publish is a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a substitute for clinical judgement or official public health guidance. Clinical decisions stay with clinicians.

How does Muganga handle patient data?

Clinical records belong to the facility that holds them. Any work involving them happens under a written agreement, on de-identified data, with limits set in advance on what may be stored and for how long. The public side of Riposte holds no patient data at all it runs on aggregate figures that are already published.

Why build this in eastern DR Congo?

Because this is where the problem is, and because tools designed elsewhere keep arriving late and fitting badly. Building here makes the constraints intermittent power, thin bandwidth, stretched staff design inputs rather than surprises.

How can I work with Muganga?

Request a demo, or write to us directly. We are particularly interested in hearing from health zone teams, hospital administrators, health authorities and public health researchers.

Muganga Riposte

An epidemic is wonor loston the ground.

Riposte is the platform that tracks an outbreak in real time, coordinates the logistics it demands, and puts the community at the centre of the response for governments, health zones and the facilities that carry the load.

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Figures on this page come from

WHO AFRO
ECDC
US CDC
Africa CDC

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What the platform does

Three things, done together.

Separately, each already exists somewhere. Holding all three in one system, reachable from a phone on a thin connection, is where the difference comes from.

Track
The outbreak in real time
Cases are flagged where they are seen. Health zones, referral hospitals and provincial authorities see the same picture at the same moment, and every published figure carries its source and its date.
Coordinate
The logistics that follow
Protection kits, gloves, masks, isolation capacity, available teams requested from the ground, tracked on the network, and sent where the shortage is real rather than assumed.
Involve
The community in the response
The pharmacists and community reporters people actually go to first are on the network: trained, equipped, able to raise an alert. A response that excludes them gets cases hidden from it.

What Riposte tracks

Africa's active outbreaks, in one table.

Riposte is not an Ebola platform. It follows epidemic and syndemic events across the continent, with the source and date behind every figure. Here is what is active today.

Disease	Where	Cases	Deaths	CFR	As of	Severity
Ebola (Bundibugyo virus)The second-largest Ebola outbreak on record. No licensed vaccine for this strain.PHEIC declaredDeployed here	DR Congo	5,290	2,516	47.6%	19 August 2026ECDC	Critical
Lassa feverCase fatality of 23.5% among confirmed cases against 18.7% at the same point last year.	Nigeria	1,017	239	23.5%	2 August 2026NCDC	High
CholeraDR Congo alone accounts for well over half the cholera deaths reported worldwide this year.	DR Congo, Mozambique, Angola +8 more	55,090our sum	1,337	— not published	12 July 2026ECDC	High
MpoxMadagascar has displaced DR Congo as the region's largest outbreak 940 of 1,112 cases in the last six weeks.WHO graded emergency	Madagascar, Angola, Kenya +2 more	51,159	235	0.5%	19 July 2026WHO	Moderate
DiphtheriaA vaccine-preventable disease still killing at around 5% across eight countries. 18,133 of these cases are confirmed.	Nigeria, Chad, Niger +5 more	29,241suspected cases	1,420	4.9%	1 March 2026WHO	Moderate
MeaslesA nationwide rise, in a country that had transmission under control 111 new cases in the latest week.	South Africa	3,747	— not published	— not published	9 August 2026NICD	Watch
Polio (vaccine-derived)No wild poliovirus in Africa in 2026. What remains is vaccine-derived.	DR Congo, Nigeria, Central African Republic +2 more	82	— not published	— not published	19 August 2026GPEI	Watch

The severity column is our own read not an official grading. It weighs case fatality, geographic spread and whether countermeasures exist. Formal declarations are shown separately.

Why Riposte exists

In Ituri, the hospital is not the first stop.

In Ituri, a lot of people do not go to the hospital first. They go to the pharmacy on their street, or the drug shop in the next village somewhere they already know, close enough to walk to, and not a place that will keep them.

That is not a failure to be corrected. The pharmacist is the person the community already trusts, and the person a sick family will willingly tell. Riposte does not ask that to change. It puts the pharmacist on the network.

Which means the person who first meets a case of Ebola stops being someone with no equipment, no training and no way to reach anyone and becomes the first node in the response.

The first thing we built

MugangaConnect

One network across everyone who touches the response pharmacists and drug shops, health centres, the referral hospitals, the zone de santé and the provincial authorities. Cases go up it. Kits and training come back down it.

01
The case is flagged where it is seen
A pharmacist facing a patient who should not be moved raises a flag from a phone, in seconds. No form to post, no weekly return, no waiting for someone to visit.
02
The health centre and hospital see it at once
The flag lands with the health centre, the health zone team and the referral hospital in the same moment. What used to surface in a report at the end of the week surfaces immediately.
03
It is reported on to the health zone and the authorities
Health centres, the referral hospital, the zone de santé and the provincial authorities sit on the same network. Nobody has to be told twice, and nobody finds out last.
04
Equipment and people go back out
The facility that actually has protective equipment and isolation capacity dispatches to the patient rather than the patient travelling, and infecting people on the way.

More than patient details

Three things move on this network, not one.

Cases
Alerts, from the people who see them first
A critical case raised at a village pharmacy reaches the health centre, the referral hospital and the zone de santé at the same instant with the location, and with what the provider can see.
Kits
Gloves, masks and full protection packages
Basic kits and full protective packages are requested, issued and tracked on the same network. A provider can report that a kit is finished before running out becomes the reason a patient is turned away.
Training
Elimu, pushed to every provider on the network
The referral hospital has run outbreak responses before. Most of the people meeting patients first never have. Elimu carries that knowledge out to them as short video modules, in the languages they work in.

Elimu · the learning layer

Elimu the training travels with the network

Every provider connected through MugangaConnect gets the same video training, produced with the referral hospital and updated as the outbreak changes. It is built for a phone, on a thin connection, by someone who may be standing in front of the patient right now.

What providers are shown

01Recognising a case before it is confirmed
02Putting on and taking off protective equipment safely
03Isolating a patient until a team with proper gear arrives
04What to do when you have no equipment at all
05Safe referral, and safe burial practice
06Reporting a kit that has run out

“A virus the community is actively fighting does not get to become an epidemic.”

Every outbreak response here eventually runs into the same wall: people hide cases because coming forward costs them something. Riposte is built the other way round around the people the community already goes to, given the gear, the training and the standing to help. When the response includes the community, there is far less for the virus to move through.

The model

What the model is, and what it is not

It learns from the cases that exist
Riposte converts existing case records into machine-readable form as the outbreak runs, so the picture gets sharper week by week instead of being frozen at whatever was digitised at the start.
It is grounded in Zaire-strain data
Almost all the historical Ebola case data in the world is Zaire ebolavirus. That is what there is to learn from, and it is what our models are grounded in. This outbreak is Bundibugyo a different species, with a different fatality profile and no licensed vaccine.
We say so on the output
A model trained on one strain and applied to another is useful, not authoritative. Riposte states that where it matters, and nothing it produces replaces the judgement of the clinician holding the case.

Built with

Panzi Hospital, Bukavu.

Riposte is built alongside Panzi Hospital the referral hospital founded by Dr Denis Mukwege and the health zone teams it works with across South Kivu and Ituri. The clinical judgement in this platform comes from people who have run outbreak responses here before.

See our work at Panzi

The live deployment

DR Congo Bundibugyo Ebola, with Panzi Hospital.

Riposte was built during this epidemic, alongside the people fighting it. This is the deployment that shaped the platform and the rest of this page is what it does on the ground.

Active deployment

The outbreak · DR Congo

19 August 2026

Confirmed cases: 5,290
Deaths: 2,516
Health zones affected: 56 of 151
Case fatality ratioWHO, 16 August 2026: 47.4%

Confirmed cases and deaths by province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as of 19 August 2026
Province	Cases	Deaths	Share of cases
Ituri	4,447	1,984	84.1%
North Kivu	663	452	12.5%
Haut-Uélé	160	71	3.0%
Tshopo	15	7	0.3%
South Kivu	3	1	0.1%
Bas-Uélé	2	1	0.0%

Source: ECDC, 15 August 2026. Provincial figures are confirmed cases; share of cases is calculated from those figures. Totals differ slightly from WHO AFRO reporting because the two bodies publish on different days.

What is known

Why this strain is different.

Bundibugyo is one of the less common Ebola species. The tools built for the Zaire strain the licensed vaccine, the approved antibody treatments were not made for it.

Pathogen: Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV). One of six known ebolavirus species.
Vaccine: There is no licensed vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain. A Moderna candidate entered a first-in-human trial with CEPI backing, and WHO advisers have said the licensed Ervebo vaccine could be trialled in this outbreak.
Treatment: No approved antiviral exists for Bundibugyo. Care is supportive fluids, electrolytes, and management of fever and pain. Early intensive supportive care improves survival.
Scale: The US CDC describes this outbreak as spreading substantially faster than previous Ebola outbreaks, and as the second-largest on record.
How it spreads: Direct contact with the blood or body fluids of someone who is sick or has died
Contact with surfaces and materials contaminated with those fluids
Burial practices that involve direct contact with the body
Contact with infected wild animals, including bats and non-human primates
Outside the region: Three imported cases have been reported outside Africa two in Germany, one in France.

Timeline

How it has gone so far.

15 May 2026
Outbreak officially declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
17 May 2026
WHO declares a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
28 July 2026
Uganda declares the end of its outbreak after 20 confirmed cases and 2 deaths, all in Kampala.
16 August 2026
WHO AFRO reports 5,021 confirmed cases and 2,378 confirmed deaths, a case fatality ratio of 47.4%.
19 August 2026
ECDC reports 5,290 confirmed cases and 2,516 deaths across 56 of 151 health zones.

Sources

Every number above, traced back.

Riposte does not produce epidemiological data. It reads what the public health bodies publish and puts it in one place. Here is everything this page draws on.

This page is a surveillance summary and a product description, not clinical or travel guidance. If you are making an operational decision, work from the primary situation reports and your national health authority not from a summary, ours included.

An epidemic is wonor loston the ground.

Three things, done together.

The outbreak in real time

The logistics that follow

The community in the response

Africa's active outbreaks, in one table.

In Ituri, the hospital is not the first stop.

MugangaConnect

The case is flagged where it is seen

The health centre and hospital see it at once

It is reported on to the health zone and the authorities

Equipment and people go back out

Three things move on this network, not one.

Alerts, from the people who see them first

Gloves, masks and full protection packages

Elimu, pushed to every provider on the network