TIME MAGAZINE  by Helen Regan                                March 23, 2015
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Paris-based Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has slammedthe international community’s slow response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, saying it cost thousands of lives that could otherwise have been saved.

A Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia.

The leading international medical charity released a report Monday coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the outbreak’s start. It said warnings that the disease’s spread was out of control were dismissed as alarmist and that early calls for help were ignored by local governments and the World Health Organization (WHO), reports Reuters.

“For the Ebola outbreak to spiral this far out of control required many institutions to fail. And they did, with tragic and avoidable consequences,” said MSF’s general director Christopher Stokes in the report.

MSF dubbed the response a “global coalition for inaction.”

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http://time.com/3753684/ebola-medecins-sans-frontiers-west-africa-world-health-organization-slow-response-cost-lives/

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Ebola: Pushed to the limit and beyond - MSF report

 MSF                                                                                                            March 23, 2015

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today releases a critical analysis of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa over the past year, revealing the shortcomings of the global response to the crisis and warning that the outbreak, despite an overall decline in cases, is not yet over.

 The report, Pushed to the limit and beyond, is based on interviews with dozens of MSF staff involved in the organisation’s Ebola intervention.
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http://www.msf.org.uk/article/ebola-pushed-to-the-limit-and-beyond-msf-report