Risking Repetition: Are we ignoring Ebola’s lessons?
- Author:
- International Rescue Committee
- Publisher:
- International Rescue Committee
- Publication Date:
- 3 March 2015
- Tags:
- Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ebola, International Organizations and Africa
Nearly a year after the World Health Organization reported the Ebola outbreak, missteps in the global response have become clearer. Intervention was not only too slow, but overly focused on medical treatment at the expense of prevention; local communities did not trust responders, which made outside interventions less effective; and support and protection for health workers and other local responders was grossly inadequate.
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