Ebola is back in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and UN human rights experts are sounding a specific alarm: the communities most at risk are the ones that health systems were never designed to reach. Indigenous Peoples in these regions live in territories where the virus is most active, but far from the infrastructure that could protect them.‍The question this raises goes beyond one outbreak. It asks whether international emergency responses are structurally capable of protecting the populations they most consistently fail — or whether crisis visibility always fades before the structural conditions change.‍