As part of WHO’s commitment to safety and protection of healthcare workers and patients from transmission of Ebola virus disease, WHO has conducted a formal review of personal protective equipment (PPE) guidelines for healthcare workers and is...
The World Bank announced $100 million more in funding Thursday in its response to West Africa's Ebola crisis.
The new funding brings the Washington-based international finance organization's contribution to over $500 million, and will be used to deploy more healthcare workers to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, where the World Health Organization said Ebola deaths have risen beyond 5,000. The United Nations has said 5,000 more healthcare personnel, from around the world, are needed.
The decision to put a dozen American soldiers returning from Liberia into quarantine for Ebola at their base near Venice rather than in the United States sparked controversy in Italy on Wednesday.
The difficulty of finding doctors with field experience is hampering international medical intervention to help curb Ebola in West Africa. Fear of contracting the virus and restricted air travel have also slowed the response.
...A new project that harnesses crowdsourcing and supercomputing may help Sierra Leone’s government close that gap. IBM Research and Sierra Leone’s Open Government Initiative (OGI)—in partnership with Airtel, Cambridge University’s Africa’s Voices radio project, and Kenya’s Echo Mobile—have created a new platform that lets the government and citizens communicate via radio, text and voice messaging, and then deploys sophisticated analytics to find useful trends from the data....
Thousands of U.S. troops and civilians are headed to Liberia. But with the number of cases topping 10,000, the question now is whether this stronger response is too little, too late.
“Ebola's spread in West Africa has left millions disenfranchised and hungry. We spoke to the WFP about the current state of food insecurity, the Jenewonda crisis, and the ways that we can help.”
More than 530 thousand people in the Ebola affected countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, are receiving food assistance from the UN World Food Programme WFP, the organization said on Wednesday. Other supplies that were brought to the area included water tanks and washing units.
The Ebola epidemic continues growing in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization warned that by December there will be ten thousand new cases per week in West Africa.
Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response UNMEER, is worried that the international community is falling short in stopping the spread of the disease. 'Ebola got a head start on us' and it looks like the disease is winning the race, he told the Security Council on Tuesday:
[[QUOTE ANTHONY BANBURY: “We either stop Ebola now or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan”]]
UN Ambassador Marjon Kamara from Liberia explained the urgent situation her government faces:
[[QUOTE MARJON KAMARA: "The Government, with support of the US military and many other faithful partners, is racing against time to establish new isolation and treatment centers, community centers, which remain the single most critical need. Because if you cannot take in people who report the disease to you, you can do nothing."]]
35 Ebola survivors will meet in Kenema in Sierra Leone this week, UNICEF announced on Wednesday. The survivors will learn how to deal with trauma and stigmatisation.
According to the World Health Organization some nine thousand people are infected with Ebola and nearly 4500 people have died.
“Highlights• As of 26 October, the cumulative number of confirmed and probable cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone has reached 4,199 confirmed and probable cases with a total of 1,023 deaths.”
TWELVE Kenyans stranded in Liberia since the Ebola epidemic broke out will be screened on arrival at JKIA and at the Kenyatta National Hospital today. Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed announced yesterday that the group will arrive at 11am on a special chartered flight and that they will not be allowed to join their families before the tests are conducted and a quarantine period completed.
“West Africa is 60 days away from a “humanitarian catastrophe”, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has warned, launching an unprecedented appeal to secure millions of pounds to fund the fight against Ebola.”
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has told states that have imposed mandatory quarantines for some travelers from Ebola-hit West Africa that the policy could impede the fight against the disease.
The woman overseeing the rush to develop an Ebola jab has become one of the first volunteers to sign up to test the safety of candidate vaccines being developed.
Marie-Paule Kieny, the World Health Organization's assistant director general for health systems and innovation, told Reuters that she signed up because it was the right thing to do.
Guinea's Melliandou village, where the current Ebola outbreak is believed to have originated, copes with the loss of its community members. Julie Noce reports. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuter...
Dr. Craig Spencer, New York City's first Ebola patient, will be treated with the experimental drug brincidofovir, which was the drug also given to late Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan and now-cured nurse Ashoka Mukpo.
“Interview on experimental treatments and vaccines with Dr Bertrand Draguez, Medical Director, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)Dr Bertrand Draguez is MSF's Medical Director currently working on the West”
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