Ebola Fight Needs $1 Billion More as Outbreak Wanes

BLOOMBERG  By Simeon Bennett and Makiko Kitamura                                                       Jan. 21, 2015
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Ebola remains a global health emergency, the United Nations said today as it sought another $1 billion in donations to fight the deadly outbreak in West Africa.

More money is needed for the World Health Organization, Unicef and the World Food Programme, David Nabarro, the UN’s special envoy for Ebola, said at a briefing today at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

“We can’t let down our guard,” Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a Bloomberg Television interview at Davos. “We have to get over the finish line and then learn from this experience to build better systems so that it doesn’t get out of control the next time” an infectious disease epidemic occurs.

... containment must be sustained, said Peter Piot, a co-discoverer of the virus and director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

“Don’t be fooled,” Piot said today at Davos. “It’s not over yet.”

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 Overall View of needs
UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL EBOLA RESPONSE              Jan. 21, 2015
https://ebolaresponse.un.org/overview-needs-and-requirements