West Africa: Ebola Funding Held up by 'Inefficient' WHO Alert System

5 February 2015

Payment delays caused by an inefficient global alert system for health crises have hampered the world's response to Ebola.

An analysis, published in the British Medical Journal on 3 February, found that only about a third of the aid money pledged to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been paid out.

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