CONAKRY, Guinea — The phone rang. It was the president. “The ambulances? Yes, excellency, we need at least 15 to cover our needs,” the nation’s harried Ebola czar answered. But the president of Guinea was just getting started, calling back a few minutes later. “Yes, excellency, to transport the samples, we need good vehicles,” the Ebola czar answered patiently… (read more)

  A deadline of December 1 to contain the Ebola virus will not be fully met due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone and elsewhere, the UN Ebola Emergency Response Mission which had set the target, said. The mission set the goal in September, seeking to have 70 percent of Ebola patients under treatment and 70 percent of Ebola victims safely buried. That target will be achieved in some areas, head of UNMEER Anthony Banbury told Reuters...

24 November 2014 – The Executive Director of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibé and the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, have visited Mali in a joint mission to support the country in its efforts to curb the spread of Ebola, as authorities there announced one new case and that two more suspected patients were being tested. “The next 15 days are critical for ending Ebola in Mali,”...