1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ebola Eradication Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which began in August 2018 in eastern Congo, has resulted in 1,554 total cases, and 1,029 deaths. (2) Despite the use of preventive tools and new therapeutics, insecurity and community resistance to response efforts remain major obstacles to ending the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the outbreak continues to spread. (3) Hospitals, health clinics, and Ebola clinics have been repeatedly attacked by armed actors. (4) On February 28, 2019, Doctors Without Borders suspended its work in Ebola epicenters after two treatment centers were attacked. (5) On April 19, 2019, Dr. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, an epidemiologist from Cameroon deployed by the World Health Organization to eastern Congo to help stop the outbreak, was killed in an attack on Butembo University Hospital. (6) In the wake of Dr. Kiboung’s death, healthcare workers responding to Ebola have threatened to go on strike unless the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo takes steps to improve security. (7) The Administration released a November 29, 2018, Presidential Memorandum implementing aid restrictions to most countries on Tier 3 of the 2018 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report that fully restricted non-humanitarian, non-trade related aid to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (8) Section 110(d)(5)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7107(d)(5)(B) ) states, The President shall exercise the [waiver] authority under paragraph (4) when necessary to avoid significant adverse effects on vulnerable populations, including women and children. . (9) The President has not exercised the waiver authority provided for in section 110(d)(5)(B) of the Trafficking in Victims Protection Act of 2000 in relation to health, education, or community outreach activities essential to the success of the