Bypassing Uganda is a Smart Travel Decision

According to recent travel advisories issued by the United States government, visiting the Republic of Uganda is not encouraged in 2025.

On April 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of State reissued a Level 3: Reconsider Travel advisory for Uganda, a country home to approximately 32 million people, located in East Africa.

The State Department says visitors should exercise increased caution in Uganda due to security risks and ongoing civil unrest.

If you decide to travel to Uganda, enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program to receive alerts from the U.S. Embassy in Kampala. This free digital offering makes it easier to locate people in an emergency.

From a health perspective, Uganda is confronting multiple disease outbreaks in 2025.

Building on sustained U.S. technical support to Uganda since the first day of the 2025 Ebola outbreak, the United States government has now donated 100 vials of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to the Uganda Ministry of Health. As a breakthrough in medical science, mAb has the potential to significantly improve survival rates in patients with Ebola.

U.S. Ambassador Popp stated in a press release on April 14, 2025, “Providing these groundbreaking treatments demonstrates the United States’ strong commitment to innovation, scientific excellence, shared prosperity, and global health security. As we respond to outbreaks like Ebola, we build stronger global health security partnerships that benefit us all.”

And will enhance the ongoing efforts to end the current Sudan Ebola Virus outbreak in Uganda, as no vaccines or therapeutics have been approved for the prevention or treatment of SVD in 2025.

Additionally, the CDC has included Uganda in its polio and mpox travel advisories and recommends pre-arrival vaccinations for several routine and travel-related diseases, such as yellow fever, mpox, and cholera.

Travel vaccines for these diseases are commercially available at clinics and pharmacies in the United States.