U.S. Ambassador for Liberia Deborah Malac (center) meets with Gabrielle Fitzgerald , Director of the Ebola program for the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and CDC Foundation President and CEO Charles Stokes during a dinner reception at the Royal Grand Hotel in Monrovia Saturday night. Photo courtesy of David Snyder Photography
Monrovia - Donations from U.S. private-sector foundations, companies, and individuals have been vital to the response that is helping to bring the Ebola outbreak under control in Liberia. Officials from two key foundations - the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation - visited Liberia January 17-19 to see how their organizations' contributions are being used to support the Ebola response. Earlier in the week, they stopped in Guinea and Sierra Leone to assess response efforts in those countries.
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