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Sat, 2009-03-21 11:57 — mdmcdonald

The mission of this working group is to articulate and shape issues of resilience and sustainability on the continent of Africa as they may be implemented as reforms of current policies, as well as contemplate and make recommendations for more extensive critiques and proposals for national, provincial, and local systems transformation, as may be necessary or desirable beyond the scope of traditional reforms being undertaken by the current African national governments and local government proposals in Africa.

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This working group is focused on developing an Africa Resilience Initiative to ensure resilience and sustainability for all Africans.
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Official: U.S. military’s response to Ebola hampered by lack of expertise with virus

Wed, 2014-09-10 14:15 — Elhadj Drame

By Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post, September 9 at 8:47 PM

Despite President Obama’s call for increased involvement of the U.S. military in the fight against the rapidly escalating Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the United States is hamstrung by a lack of military medical personnel with expertise dealing with the deadly virus, a top official in charge of coordinating the U.S. response said Tuesday.

“There isn’t an existing cadre of people who have experience in treating this epidemic other than” the aid group Doctors Without Borders, said Nancy Lindborg of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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African Union To Send Medical Support Teams To Fight Ebola

Wed, 2014-09-10 13:54 — Elhadj Drame

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Nigeria Confirms New Ebola Cases, Boy Killed In Liberia Quarantine Zone

Wed, 2014-09-10 09:52 — Norea

By By BASHIR ADIGUN and JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH - Updated: 08/23/2014 1:00 pm EDT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Two alarming new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria, widening the circle of people sickened beyond the immediate group of caregivers who treated a dying airline passenger in one of Africa's largest cities.

The outbreak also continues to spread elsewhere in West Africa, with 142 more cases recorded, bringing the new total to 2,615 with 1,427 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Most of the new cases are in Liberia, where the government was delivering donated rice to a slum where 50,000 people have been sealed off from the rest of the capital in an attempt to contain the outbreak.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/nigeria-ebola-quarantine_n_5699062.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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Ivory Coast closes western borders over Ebola threat

Tue, 2014-09-09 10:48 — Norea

People walk past health workers wearing protective masks and gloves at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan August 12, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Luc GnagoABIDJAN - Reuters - Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:48am EDT

(Reuters) - Ivory Coast has closed its land borders with Ebola-affected West African neighbours Guinea and Liberia in an attempt to prevent the world's deadliest outbreak of the virus from spreading onto its territory, the government announced.

A number of African nations have defied advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and put in place restrictions on travel to and from the countries where Ebola has appeared, which also include Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The Philippines on Saturday ordered 115 troops to return home from peacekeeping operations in Liberia due to the outbreak there.

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/23/us-health-ebola-ivorycoast-idUSKBN0GN0AL20140823

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Ebola outbreak: Doctors Without Borders calls 'lockdown' a mistake

Mon, 2014-09-08 09:06 — Elhadj Drame

Sierra Leone will impose a three-day countrywide shutdown starting Sept. 19

Thomson Reuters Posted: Sep 06, 2014 7:12 AM ET

Last Updated: Sep 07, 2014 2:05 PM ET

Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide "lockdown" will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday.

The government plans to order citizens not to leave the areas around their homes for three days from Sept. 19 in a bid to halt new infections and help health workers track down people suffering from the disease, the information ministry said on Saturday.

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WHO: Use Ebola survivors' blood to treat patients

Sat, 2014-09-06 18:32 — Elhadj Drame

BY MARIA CHENG AND CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY

The Associated PressSeptember 5, 2014

 

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Ebola Outbreak: Call to Send in Military to West Africa to Help Curb Epidemic

Thu, 2014-09-04 18:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Head of Médecins sans Frontières says the world is 'losing the battle' as cases and deaths continue to surge

MSF - theguardian.com - by Sarah Boseley - September 2, 2014

Military teams should be sent to west Africa immediately if there is to be any hope of controlling the Ebola epidemic, doctors on the frontline told the United Nations on Tuesday, painting a stark picture of health workers dying, patients left without care and infectious bodies lying in the streets.

The international president of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Joanne Liu, told member states that although alarm bells had been ringing for six months, the response had been too little, too late and no amount of vaccinations and new drugs would be able to prevent the escalating disaster.

"Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it," Liu said.

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Can Social Media Help Contain Ebola?

Thu, 2014-09-04 15:11 — Norea

By Simon Engler - SEP 4, 2014 - 05:06 PM

Patrick Sawyer, Nigeria's first Ebola patient, collapsed at the international airport in Lagos on July 20. This Wednesday, more than six weeks later, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that it was monitoring at least 200 Nigerians for infection related to Sawyer's case. Sawyer, a Liberian-American who had traveled from Monrovia, had carried the often-fatal disease to Africa's most populous country, hundreds of miles from its origin. It was as if he had slipped through a crowd.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/09/04/the_ebola_outbreak_is_out_of_control_can_it_be_tracked_remotely

 

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U.N. says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola as deaths top 1,900

Wed, 2014-09-03 14:59 — Norea

(L-R) World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan, Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola Virus Disease Dr. David Nabarro, and Assistant WHO Director-General for Health Security Dr. Keiji Fukuda appear at a briefing to discuss the Ebola outbreak in West Africa at the UN Foundation in Washington September 3, 2014.By Toni Clarke and Saliou Samb - WASHINGTON/CONAKRY Wed Sep 3, 2014 7:54pm EDT

(Reuters) - The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a new part of the country.

The pace of the infection has accelerated, and there were close to 400 deaths in the past week, officials said on Wednesday. It was first detected deep in the forests of southeastern Guinea in March.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/03/us-health-ebola-idUSKBN0GY1V320140903

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As Ebola's Spread Continues, Warnings of an Inadequate Global Response

Wed, 2014-09-03 14:50 — Norea

Health care workers wearing protective suits leave a high-risk area in a hospital in Monrovia last week. Liberia has been hardest-hit by the Ebola virus raging through West Africa, with 624 deaths and 972 cases since the start of the year. Karen Weintraub for National Geographic  Published September 3, 2014

More volunteers are desperately needed, officials say.

The battle against Ebola is winnable, public health officials say, but a growing chorus of institutions and experts is warning this week that an insufficient global response to West Africa's epidemic may put a solution to the crisis out of reach.

The disease is spreading uncontrollably in Liberia and Sierra Leone, has now spread beyond Lagos in Nigeria, and has just been detected in a fifth West African country, Senegal.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140903-ebola-global-response-west-africa-world-health-medicine/?google_editors_picks=true

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