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The World Health Organization said on Friday that it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic this year. WHO has faced criticism, including from medical charity Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders), that it has done too little too late to fight the disease. 
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The United Nations in Sierra Leone has said today that an additional $18.13 million is needed to bolster the Government of Sierra Leone's efforts in halting the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The disease has now spread to 12 of 13 districts in the country with a cumulative total of more than 800 EVD cases and 350 deaths. The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone, David McLachlan-Karr said at a press conference in Freetown that this appeal is needed to enhance four main interventions: clinical management through the World Health Organization; social mobilization and awareness raising through UNICEF; surveillance and contact tracing of persons who may have come into contact with Ebola (UNFPA); and providing logistical support through the WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP).
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Researchers are still trying identify the disease affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo (WHO says 70 die from hemorrhagic illness in DRC; denies outbreak is Ebola http://t.co/p5x1Yor2II)...
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The people of Sierra Leone have little faith in the government or foreign doctors, so courageous local filmmakers are showing people how to do battle with Ebola.
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20/8/2014 - Le Syndicat National des Praticiens Hospitaliers du Togo (SYNPHOT) a organisé un atelier de formation sur la prevention et la prise en charge de la maladie de l'ebola au Togo.
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South Africa has banned travelers from the three Ebola-hit West African nations, a government spokesman said Thursday, after other countries adopted similar measures to prevent the deadly virus from breaching their borders.
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Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine. The Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has grown so large and severe primarily because these countries are among the world’s poorest. Poverty, dysfunctional health systems, and fear remain formidable obstacles to ending the outbreak. ...The situation continues to deteriorate in the hardest-hit countries, but the response has improved over the past 2 weeks. More aid, from individual countries and the World Bank, is coming in. The WORLD FOOD PROGRAM, with its unparalleled logistic capabilities, is addressing daily material needs in the quarantine zones. The WHO is mapping the outbreak to pinpoint areas of transmission and the location of facilities and supplies to ensure that assistance is coordinated and rapidly and rationally distributed. Personal protective equipment is being dispatched on a nearly daily basis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing robust on-the-ground support, including contact tracing in Lagos. The CDC is also equipping the hardest-hit countries with computer hardware and software that will soon allow real-time reporting of cases. The framework for a scaled-up response, including the deployment of more medical staff, logisticians, and event managers, is rapidly taking shape...
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Soldiers and the police blocked roads to a neighborhood of tens of thousands of people in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, and residents hurled rocks and stormed barricades trying to break out.
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Democratic Republic of Congo has sent its health minister and a team of experts to the remote northern Equateur province after several people died there from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms, a local official and a professor said on Wednesday.... ..."An illness is spreading in Boende but we don't know the origin," said Michel Wangi, a spokesman for the governor's office. "The government has sent a team of experts from the INRB (National Institute of Biomedical Research) this morning led by the health minister (Felix) Kabange Numbi and acting governor Sebastian Impeto."...
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NPR (blog) ...Enlisting help from the international community hasn't been easy. "NGOs that I used to see in some other crises, like after the Haiti earthquake or even in [Central African Republic] or South Sudan, are not present right now in Western Africa." That's why Liu's on a tour, speaking to U.N. leaders and NGOs about how they can help. "There is some reluctance, I guess," she says. "Everybody has to overcome their own fear before coming to the field."...
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The last outbreak of Ebola in the DRC was in 2012, when 77 cases, including 36 deaths were reported.
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Senegal has closed its border with Guinea and imposed controls for boats and ships hailing from Ebola-hit countries Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. South Africa has imposed similar measures for travelers.
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Hospitals battling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa desperately need more staff, as local doctors leave their posts and foreign doctors are reluctant to come forward, medical experts said during an online debate on the disease.
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With more than 1,300 reported deaths from Ebola in West Africa, the virus continues to be an urgent health crisis, but it is also having a devastating impact on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A decade ago, scientists would have laughed at the idea of Ebola as a public health emergency of international concern. ...“It’s the boiling frog effect. If you put a frog in cold water and start to heat it, she will not jump out of the pan, she will adapt to the temperature and she will not realize that she is boiling to death. WHO is the same,” said de la Vigne [MSF]....
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Help put an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record from the comfort of your own home. ...In the response plan, Chan [WHO] called for emergency relief funding of roughly $30 million, with another $70 million expected to come from donor countries, organizations, and individuals. Not included in this plan is the funding of Ebola research, for which more capital is desperately needed in the hopes of finding a cure to this deadly disease.
If seeing a number that large leads you to think that making a small donation will do relatively nothing, consider what these rather “small” donations can buy:
- $0.70 = Protective shoe covers - $4 = Bag of basic IV saline - $6 = Pack of 50 exam gloves - $10 = Isolation gown - $20 = Sterile syringe and needle - $25 = Pair of rubber boots - $60 = Entire case of face masks Making a donation to Ebola relief takes only a couple minutes of your time and doesn’t even require you to get out of your seat. That’s literally all it takes – two minutes of your time and a small donation – to help save lives. You can make a difference.
Check out several programs that are taking donations that go directly towards Ebola relief: https://emedcert.com/blog/how-to-help-the-ebola-breakout
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“Uganda's mobile phone-based health management system, M-Trac, is credited with changing the face of health service delivery in the country.”
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A collection of articles on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — The International Ebola Emergency. August 20, 2014 | S. Briand and Others (DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1409858) Immediate priorities for control of the ongoing Ebola epidemic are early diagnosis, patient isolation, contact tracing, strict adherence to laboratory biosafety guidelines, barrier nursing procedures, use of personal protective equipment by clinicians, and safe burials.
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On the Tanzanian side of the border, properly equipped and briefed medical staff were screening visitors from Kenya.
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This testimony was recorded in Liberia on 17 July 2014 at Foya county's treatment centre.
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One of MSF's main priorities in an Ebola outbreak is to train health staff to reduce the risk of transmission while caring for patients.
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