http://www.worldbank.org/ - The World Bank Group will mobilize millions to aid affected families and communities and to build up public health systems in West Africa.
The pledge comes after calls for assistance from the three African countries hardest hit by Ebola and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The UN is to fly in food aid for up to a million people affected by the Ebola outbreak wreaking havoc in west Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. "The restrictions on movement in the most affected areas threatens food security," WFP spokeswoman Fabienne Pompey said. The WFP is already feeding several thousand people in the worst affected areas, including the families of victims who have been quarantined, orphans and old people and hunters hit by the ban on the sale of bushmeat. http://krui.info/un-to-feed-up-to-one-million-people-hit-by-ebola.php/
The World Bank on Monday pledged as much as $200 million in emergency funding to help three West African nations fight the deadly Ebola epidemic following requests from the World Health Organization and officials from the three countries.
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses.
GENEVA Aug 15 (Reuters) - It will take about six months to bring under control the Ebola epidemic in West Africa which feels like "wartime" and requires greater leadership from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday.
Joanne Liu, international president of MSF (Doctors Without Borders), told a news briefing in Geneva after a 10-day trip to the region: "If we don't stabilise Liberia, we will never stabilise the region". "Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my gut feeling," she said, adding more experts were needed on the ground.
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With the latest death toll from the West Africa Ebola epidemic now at 887, the World Bank Group today pledged as much as US $200 million in emergency funding to help Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone contain the spread of Ebola infections
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson 11 August 2014 Despite our plethora of socio-economic woes, Sierra Leone is a rich resource nation blessed with natural endowments which, if well tapped, could enable us ove...
Around 400 Ivorian refugees who fled to Liberia during their country's 2010-2011 post-election violence have been prevented from returning home due to fears over the spread of the Ebola virus, a UN official said Monday.
Disease surveillance—monitoring the spread of infection in order to predict its pattern—is vital to any attempt to prevent a pandemic. In the case of the current Ebola outbreak in Central and Western Africa, on-the-ground surveillance is tough. With too few medical resources such as labs to process diagnostic tests, and with international organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) strapped for cash, everything slows down. But what if a computer algorithm could report an outbreak faster than people on the ground?
HealthMap, a sophisticated online mapping tool, appears to have done just that. The website, which is run by a group of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children’s Hospital, noted a “mystery hemorrhagic fever” spreading in Guinea nine days before the WHO issued its first statement on the outbreak...
The Ebola epidemic has so far claimed 932 lives in four affected West African countries. Its the worst outbreak of the disease till now with more deaths this...
UN News Centre Ebola: cases, deaths 'vastly underestimated,' says UN health agency UN News Centre The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), in a blog post from Sierra Leone on the “joys of survivors” of the deadly disease, says that “Ebola survivors can...
(CNN) -- Global health experts on Friday declared the Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa an international health emergency that requires a coordinated global approach.
I travelled upcountry last week to one of the worst affected areas of Sierra Leone – Kenema. When you arrive in the town, there’s a feeling that Ebola has settled in with no plans to move any time ...
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