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West Africa: Outrage Over Global Ebola Response - Calls for Action
allAfrica, 20 August 2014
Imagine this choice. Your child has Ebola symptoms. You have no protective gloves to help keep you alive to care for her. But she needs comfort, so you wash her and wipe away her… Read more »
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Africa: How Africa is Losing the Ebola Battle - Amadou Mahtar Ba
allAfrica, 31 August 2014
A combination of fear of the Ebola virus, weak public infrastructures in three of the world's poorest countries, and a slow response by the international public health community… Read more »
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West Africa: MSF Denounces Inaction, Calls for Mobilization of Medical Assets
MSF, 2 September 2014
MSF denounces international inaction in Ebola-stricken African countries; States must deploy specialized medical assets now Read more »
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West Africa: A Call for Appointment of ECOWAS Special Envoy on Ebola
OSIWA, 1 September 2014
Civil Society Statement on the Current Ebola Crisis in West Africa: Read more »
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Africa: Citizens Call to Action on Ebola - Petition
allAfrica, 31 August 2014
As the Ebola virus becomes an overwhelming human catastrophe affecting public health, social institutions and and economic well-being in Africa, we stand in solidarity with our… Read more »
Outrage Mounts Over Weak Global Ebola Response
Fear of the Ebola virus, weak public infrastructures and a slow response by the international public health community and world governments is reversing real progress in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. A group of prominent Africans launched a 'Call to Action' petition aimed at reversing the losses, starting by lifting quarantines on affected countries. And civil society organisations want the Economic Community of West African State (Ecowas) to name an 'influential and knowledgeable' Special Envoy on Ebola.
With the quarantine lifted in Monrovia's West Point neighborhood, trading slowly recommences in the sprawling business district nearby.
African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in her Monrovia office.
African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka has his temperature taken on arrival in Monrovia. "Happy to oblige!" he said on Twitter.
InFocus
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Nobody who has been working on the Ebola crisis in Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia thinks the international response is anywhere close to what's needed to avert mounting disaster ... Read more »
Documents
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1 September 2014
Afri-Dev Fact Sheet on Ebola Epidemic & Human Resources for Health Challenges
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- Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service
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- Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service
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Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service (Afri-Dev.Info) launches 2014 Africa Factsheet and Scorecard on Human Resources for ... see more »
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West Africa: Failures of the International Ebola Response
MSF, 29 August 2014
First published in Le Temps on 27 August 2014. Read more »
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West Africa: Ebola Claims Another Victim - Economic Growth
VOA, 1 September 2014
The Ebola crisis may have begun in Guinea, but Liberia is among the hardest hit - with more than 13 hundred cases reported. Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola Hits Economy
Vanguard, 31 August 2014
There is no doubt that the outbreak of the Ebola disease, which started in Guinea , as a major health hazard, now has serious economic implications in the entire West African… Read more »
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West Africa: AfDB President Visits Freetown and Monrovia to Signal His Support for Those Affected By the Ebola Virus
African Development Bank (AfDB), 27 August 2014
On Tuesday, August 26 and Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), embarked on a two-day tour of Freetown (Sierra Leone) and… Read more »
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Sierra Leone: Ebola - No Need to Impose "Unnecessary Stringent Measures" On Affected Countries, Says Kaberuka
African Development Bank (AfDB), 28 August 2014
On a two-day trip (on 26-27 August 2014) to Sierra Leone and Liberia, two countries affected by the Ebola outbreak, African Development President (AfDB) Presdident Donald Kaberuka,… Read more »
InFocus
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The Obama administration is asking for the lifting of travel restriction on countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, according to U.S. Ambassador to Liberia Deborah ... Read more »
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The World Health Organization has raised the alarm that more than 20,000 people could be infected in the latest outbreak and that it will take up to nine months to halt the spread ... Read more »
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The head of the U.S Centers for Disease Control, Tom Frieden, who is on a visit to west Africa, says Liberia's Ebola epidemic is set to get worse as 'many cases of the deadly virus ... Read more »
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In addition to imposing controls on boats and ships hailing from Ebola-hit countries, Senegal has shut its border with neighboring Guinea. Read more »
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As neighbors and family are affected and infected with the deadly Ebola virus, and Liberians begin to realize how potentially devastating it can be for the country, they've taken ... Read more »
