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West Africa: Voices On the Ground - Working to Stop Ebola
SciDev.Net, 15 August 2014
The Ebola outbreak that started in February has killed more than 1,000 people across West Africa — in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone — triggering an… Read more »
Ebola - Voices On the Ground in West Africa
To understand the challenges faced by health workers and people in West Africa, SciDev.Net put together interactive stories which gather the voices of experts working on the ground in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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West Africa: International Response to West Africa Ebola Epidemic Dangerously Inadequate
MSF, 15 August 2014
Despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the largest-recorded Ebola haemorrhagic fever epidemic an "international health emergency," the international effort to stem… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - Close the Borders Now
Independent (Lagos), 17 August 2014
As Ebola disease continues to ravage the West-Afican sub region, Hannatu Musawa, a public affairs commentator, wants the federal government to completely close all Nigerian borders… Read more »
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West Africa: Ebola Hurts Economies in West Africa
VOA, 15 August 2014
The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa is likely to hurt economic growth and government finances in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and perhaps Nigeria, according to a key… Read more »
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Nigeria: How Ebola Virus Is Changing Socio-Cultural Behaviour in Nigeria
Guardian, 16 August 2014
UNLIKE the Yoruba abiku who "dies and comes in several seasons", Ebola virus seems to have come to stay. And for how long it will stay, no one can predict, not even scientists in… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola Virus Endangers Healthcare System, Says WHO
Guardian, 16 August 2014
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the healthcare system may be the greatest casualty of the Ebola virus. Read more »
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Nigeria: MSF Promised to Stabilize Ebola Crisis After Six Months
Independent (Lagos), 15 August 2014
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says. Read more »
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Liberia: Why Was Ebola Isolation Unit Ransacked?
FrontPageAfrica, 18 August 2014
"I saw sick people being taken out of the Ebola Center by West Pointers. They were actually holding them; some took them home to care for them. As I speak the police station is… Read more »
InFocus
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In seperate conversations with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma, U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed the commitment of the ... Read more »
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The doctor who treated the Liberian-American Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer in Lagos has recovered and been discharged from the quarantine unit. Read more »
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The World Health Organization says evidence suggests that the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is vastly underestimated, while also warning that the crisis could ... Read more »
