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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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Sierra Leone burial team attacked despite lockdown | Reuters

Sat, 2014-09-20 19:58 — mike kraft

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/20/us-health-ebola-idUSKBN0HD2E420140920

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Sierra Leone burial team attacked despite lockdown
By Umaru Fofana

FREETOWN Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:10pm EDT

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An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown September 19, 2014.

Credit: Reuters/Umaru Fofana

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(Reuters) - A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone's capital on Saturday, a member of parliament said, as a small group defied a three-day lockdown aimed at halting the worst outbreak of the disease on record.
In one of the most extreme measures since the epidemic began, Sierra Leone has ordered its population of 6 million to stay indoors as volunteers circulate to educate residents about the disease as well as isolate the sick and remove the dead.

Residents have mostly complied with the measures announced by President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier this week. On the second day of the lockdown, the streets were mostly deserted, except for ambulances and police vehicles.

Inside An Ebola Kit: A Little Chlorine And A Lot Of Hope

Sat, 2014-09-20 12:17 — mike kraft

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September 19, 2014 4:15 PM ET
 

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Detailed NY Times story on Sierra Leone lockdown aftermath

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:52 — mike kraft
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by   SEPT. 19, 2014
 
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Fight against Ebola is grossly underfunded

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:30 — Norea

phot from CNNSep 20, 2014 - by Q13 FOX News Staff

NEW YORK — The Ebola virus has already killed thousands in West Africa, an immeasurable loss for many families. As medical workers try to quell its spread, global organizations are calculating the economic impact of the disease.

“Their economies are basically being devastated,” said Daniel Epstein, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization. “Economic activity has halted in many areas there. The harvest isn’t going on. People can’t fly in and fly out.”

WHO workers even had difficulty flying into the Ebola-stricken nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Epstein said.

http://q13fox.com/2014/09/20/fight-against-ebola-is-grossly-underfunded/

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With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:21 — Norea

By Lenny Bernstein - Sep 20 2014 - washingtonpost.com

MONROVIA, Liberia — While the terrifying spread of Ebola has captured the world’s attention, it also has produced a lesser-known crisis: the near-collapse of the already fragile health-care system here, a development that may be as dangerous — for now — as the virus for the average Liberian.

Western experts said that people here are dying of preventable or treatable conditions such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and the effects of high blood pressure and diabetes, such as strokes. Where services do exist, Ebola has complicated the effort to provide them by stoking fear among health-care workers, who sometimes turn away sick people or women in labor if they can’t determine whether the patient is infected. And some people, health-care workers said, will not seek care, fearful that they will become infected with Ebola at a clinic or hospital.

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Fw: Leaked CDC draft report estates 500,000 Ebola victims by the end of January -_Washington Post

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:02 — mike kraft

More disturbing projections in leaked estimate scheduled to be released next week –Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-could-infect-500000-by-end-of-january-according-to-tentative-cdc-projection/2014/09/19/c7585bf8-402e-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

Mike Kraft

Fw: Leaked CDC draft report estates 500,000 Ebola victims by the end of January -_Washington Post

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:02 — mike kraft

More disturbing projections in leaked estimate scheduled to be released next week –Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-could-infect-500000-by-end-of-january-according-to-tentative-cdc-projection/2014/09/19/c7585bf8-402e-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

Mike Kraft

Fw: Leaked CDC draft report estates 500,000 Ebola victims by the end of January -_Washington Post

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:02 — mike kraft

More disturbing projections in leaked estimate scheduled to be released next week –Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-could-infect-500000-by-end-of-january-according-to-tentative-cdc-projection/2014/09/19/c7585bf8-402e-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

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Upcoming CDC estimate reportedly predicts up to 500,000 Ebola victims - Leaked

Sat, 2014-09-20 10:39 — mike kraft
Washington Post, September 20
 
By Lena H. Sun 

The Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa could infect up to 500,000 people by the end of January, according to a new estimate under development by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report is scheduled to be released next week, but work on it is still ongoing and projections could change, said a person who is familiar with its contents but was not authorized to speak because the report is not yet public.

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Help in the time of Ebola

Sat, 2014-09-20 10:16 — Norea

Eyevineeconomist.com - Sep 20th 2014

There is a scramble to control a runaway epidemic.

“WE ARE exhausted, we are angry, we are desperate,” said Sophie Delaunay, the American director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) last week, frustrated at the tardy international response to the deadly Ebola virus in west Africa. Within days of these words, the outside world was at last waking up to the danger of Ebola haemorrhagic fever—a viral disease that threatens tens of thousands of lives, health systems, economic growth and even political stability in parts of west Africa.

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21618909-there-scramble-control-runaway-epidemic-help-time-ebola

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