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Ebola Virus Disease Emergency Appeals (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal and Africa Coordination): Combined Ebola Operations Update n°11 
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Thousands of school exercise books with information about Ebola are to be distributed to children in poor communities across Liberia. The 3000 books will be handed out by the United Nations Mission in Liberia when the government gives the go-ahead for students to return to schools that have been closed by the health crisis. Osman Benk Sankoh, who is head of the mission's Community Outreach Unit, said: "Eight months down the line, the kids of Liberia (and of course Guinea and Sierra Leone) have been denied the right to go to school.
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Andrew Harding returns one month on to the stricken town of Kigbal in Sierra Leone, to see how the fight against Ebola has been going.
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Two more Sierra Leonean doctors have died from Ebola, further depleting the West African country's ability to respond to the devastating outbreak, health officials said Saturday.
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Eight months into West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, aid efforts in Guinea still suffer from poor coordination, hampering deployments of international support to help quell a virus that has killed more than 1,200 people in the former French colony, officials and medical aid providers say.
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The BBC's Andrew Harding hears from men digging graves for Ebola victims in Sierra Leone.
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The World Health Organization reported that both Liberia and Guinea have hit key health targets by isolating Ebola patients and safely burying victims. Even so, the fight to end Ebola is far from over. Judy Woodruff talks to Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations about why some Ebola treatment centers are empty and why money pledged to end the outbreak hasn’t materialized.
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Ebola is costing the three West African countries worst hit by the outbreak more than $2-billion as the deadly virus causes their economies to slow down or shrink, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The bank sharply revised down its 2014 and 2015 economic growth estimates for Sierra Leone and Guinea from its previous analysis in October, but said the outlook for Liberia was improving slightly.
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The World Bank lowered again on Tuesday its growth projections for the hardest-hit countries. It had already cut them in October. The international response to Ebola is still too slow and piecemeal, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, as officials said the disease is crippling the economies of the three West African countries hardest hit.
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An experimental vaccine against Ebola virus seems to be safe and commands a strong immune response against the virus, according to tests in 20 healthy people in the United States. The results of the phase 1 trial are published in the New England Journal of Medicine1. Via Ed Rybicki
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FREETOWN, Dec 8 (Reuters) - British charity Save The Children on Monday defended its management of an Ebola treatment centre outside Freetown saying it had informed both the British government and Sierra Leone that it lacked frontline experience in running such facilities.
Sierra Leone's government last week said most of the beds in the treatment centre were empty because the British handed the facility over to a charity that was not experienced enough to run it.
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Sierra Leone said Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and the country now hardest-hit by the deadly virus desperately needs over 1,000 beds to treat victims.
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The British actor and a group of African soccer stars have teamed up with the CDC in a new public health campaign. The message: Ebola "is not an ordinary game. This is life or death."
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In his first interview, Dr. Ian Crozier, who was treated for Ebola at Emory University Hospital, speaks of what he saw treating the disease and his near-death experience after he was infected.
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KEY POINTS
Special Envoy Nabarro visited Liberia, meeting with President Sirleaf and key partners.
UNHCR has established an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) isolation center in a refugee camp in Kouankan, Guinea.
UNICEF noted a reduction in resistance in some rural communities in Guinea.
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The UN's Ebola mission chief in West Africa tells the BBC that there is still a "huge risk" that the deadly virus could spread to other countries.
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December 4, 2014 7:15 AM
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Getting communities at risk of Ebola to change their behaviour is a difficult thing, as the BBC's Andrew Harding in Freetown finds out.
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The World Health Organization has said Sierra Leone does not yet have enough beds in treatment centres to isolate Ebola patients in the west of the country.
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December 4, 2014 7:03 AM
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The international response to Ebola is still too slow and piecemeal, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, as officials said the disease is crippling the economies of the three West African countries hardest hit.
Ebola has infected nearly 17,000 people, of which about 6,000 have died, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of infections are in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, poor countries that have been left to handle the crisis without sufficient help, said the medical aid group.
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December 4, 2014 6:52 AM
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An apparent slowdown in new cases of Ebola disease in Liberia and Guinea should be taken advantage of. Almost one year after an Ebola epidemic began in West Africa there are at last encouraging signs that it may be receding in some regions. But those responding to the epidemic must not drop their guard — rather, they should seize upon the chance to finish the job.
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French humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lambasted the international community Tuesday for its slow and uneven response to the Ebola crisis, which has killed thousands in West Africa.
MSF, whose English name is Doctors Without Borders, criticized countries for “failing to adapt to the outbreak after failing to respond quickly enough” and leaving local people, nonprofit groups and national governments to do most of the hands-on, practical work in trying to manage the rapid spread of the deadly virus.
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