Africa Resilience Initiative

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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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Ebola Outbreak: CDC Estimates As Many As 500,000 Ebola Cases By End Of January

Sun, 2014-09-21 10:25 — Norea

A health worker prepares to remove a dead body infected with the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 11. Reuters/James Giahuye By Marcy Kreiter - Sep 21 2014 - ibtimes.com

As many as 500,000 people could be infected with Ebola virus disease by the end of January, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The CDC estimate, due to be released this week, is based on “dynamic modeling” and assumes no additional aid to help battle the disease, a person familiar with the report told the Washington Post.

Infectious-disease experts, aid workers and global health advocates said the number of Ebola cases is increasing much more rapidly than the World Health Organization, or WHO, had projected, especially in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, collectively the West African epicenter of the outbreak. Villagers are complicating containment efforts with police reporting health-care workers in Sierra Leone coming under attack while trying to bury victims.

http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-outbreak-cdc-estimates-many-500000-ebola-cases-end-january-1692525

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A New Health Crisis in Liberia

Sun, 2014-09-21 09:33 — mike kraft

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By Lenny Bernstein September 21, Front Page

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.

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With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems - The Washington Post

Sun, 2014-09-21 09:26 — mike kraft

Front page, Sunday’s Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/with-ebola-crippling-the-health-system-liberians-die-of-routine-medical-problems/2014/09/20/727dcfbe-400b-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html?hpid=z4

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Sierra Leone Medical Team attacked

Sun, 2014-09-21 09:22 — mike kraft

By Umaru and Fofana

FREETOWN, Sun Sep 21, 2014 Reuters

1 of 2. Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun July 20, 2014.

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Sierra Leone burial team attacked despite lockdown | Reuters

Sat, 2014-09-20 19:58 — mike kraft

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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 ADAM NOSSITER SEPT. 19, 2014

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Fight against Ebola is grossly underfunded

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:30 — Norea

phot from CNN Sep 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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