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Ebola stricken countries could see debt forgiveness

Written on December 15, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Government News, Health News, World News.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A U.N. commission is asking for more debt cancellations for the three West African nations hardest hit by the Ebola virus. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa said Monday that it is crucial that the current Ebola health crisis not be a catalyst for financial distress in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Carlos Lopez, a U.N. under secretary-general and the executive secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission...

Cuban Docs Most Under-Appreciated in the Fight Against Ebola

Written on December 13, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Health News, Travel, World News.

Time magazine named the Ebola fighters as their person of the year, and while Americans came to know Dr. Jerry Brown, Dr. Kent Brantly and others by name … there is one group of those fighters who have gone largely unrecognized. Cuban doctors. They make less than $75 a month, but they are still Cuba‘s most valuable export. “I am proud of you all, this is my team,” Dr. Juan Carlos told his team as they gathered around a prep...

Ebola’s Lasting Impact On The U.S. Health Care System

Written on December 13, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Health News, USA News.

Huffington Post- One of the biggest humanitarian tragedies in 2014 has been the Ebola epidemic, which to date has infected 17,942 people and killed 6,388. The epidemic continues in West Africa, and there is no doubt it will impact the governments, economies and people of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea for years to come. But while Ebola has affected the U.S. in a much smaller way, the handful of cases that arrived here may also have an enduring...

Ebola concern cancels Christmas and New Year’s gatherings in Sierra Leone

Written on December 13, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Personal Safety, Travel, World News.

Christmas and New Year gatherings have been banned by the government throughout Sierra Leone for fear the Ebola virus will be spread to rural villages as people go home to celebrate. The edict, which will be enforced by the army, means those who live in the capital, Freetown, will be barred from travelling to join their extended families. The city’s residents account for a third of the country’s population. A “lock-down” is reported to also be...

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer dies in Liberia

Written on December 13, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, World News.

CBS News/AP – Photojournalist Michel du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who recently captured compelling images of Ebola patients and their caretakers, died in Liberia while on assignment for The Washington Post. He was 58. Executive Editor Martin Baron sent a statement to the newspaper staff informing them of du Cille’s death. Baron called du Cille “a beloved colleague and one of the world’s most accomplished...

Johns Hopkins-Jhpiego Win US Award for Improved Protective Suit to Combat Ebola

Written on December 13, 2014. Posted in Business News, Health News, Personal Safety, World News.

An advanced protective suit for healthcare workers who treat Ebola patients, devised by a Johns Hopkins team, has been selected as a winning design in a global competition aimed at quickly getting new tools into the field to combat Ebola, this deadly disease. The Johns Hopkins prototype suit was developed in partnership with Jhpiego, an international health non-profit and university affiliate, and designed to provide improved protection to keep...

UN Urges Critical Improvements of Ebola Affected Countries’ Health Systems

Written on December 13, 2014. Posted in Government News, Health News, World News.

NEW YORK, 12 December 2014 / PRN Africa / — The international community must help Ebola affected countries reboot their health systems so that they emerge from the current crisis more resilient and more focused on prevention efforts than ever before, a high-level meeting coordinated by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva heard today. “People in Ebola affected countries are dying – not only from Ebola but also from...

Bodies of Ebola victims found piled up in Sierra Leone hospital

Written on December 12, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Health News, World News.

Health officials in Sierra Leone fear a major Ebola outbreak may have gone largely unreported until now in a remote district where the World Health Organization (WHO) said scores of bodies piled up in a hospital. The WHO said on Wednesday that it had sent a response team to the diamond-rich Kono district following a worrying spike in reported Ebola cases in the district, which lies along the country’s eastern border with Guinea. “They...

Liberia: Ebola outbreak contained in Lofa County, MSF hands over activities

Written on December 12, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

The Ebola situation has improved in Lofa County and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to withdraw from the area. New actors have arrived to help and since 30 October there have been no more Ebola patients in the Ebola Management Centre (EMC) in Foya. The success of MSF’s intervention in northern Liberia can be considered a model of response, benefiting from a comprehensive approach and constant community involvement. When MSF took over...

Ebola outbreak: Mali’s last known case recovered and released

Written on December 12, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Travel, World News.

The last Ebola patient being treated in Mali has survived the disease and been released, the Health Ministry said Friday, leaving no known Ebola outbreak cases in the West African country. Mali had recorded eight cases of Ebola, all of them linked to people who crossed from neighboring Guinea. The country now has no confirmed or suspected cases, according to the ministry, but authorities are still monitoring 26 people who had contact with the sick....