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http://www.who.int/trade/resource/en/Negotiating.pdf?ua=1 - 0 views

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International Relations negotiating WHO

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    World Health Organization Book on strategies for international health professionals.
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BBC News - Ebola crisis: Five ways to break the epidemic - 0 views

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International Relations Ebola

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  • The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has urged other countries to "deploy their civil defence and military assets, and medical teams, to contain the epidemic".
  • "As soon as their family member shows more severe symptoms, like bleeding, they will seek to bring them in a treatment centre anyway," says Brice de la Vigne, MSF's director of operations.
  • Senegal, where many UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have their regional offices, is expected to become a logistical hub.
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  • "If the CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) hadn't sent 50 experts to Nigeria, they would not have it under control," Dr Maughan says.
  • "We are working with the authorities in Mali to get all the 86 health centres and hospitals we sponsor there ready," says Alexis Smigielski, head of the Dakar-based medical charity Alima.
  • The WHO has also indicated that people who have survived can now provide blood to treat patients who are sick.
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SARS: A Pandemic Prevented (2013) - 0 views

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International Relations Global Public Health SARS

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  • The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) network of 11 laboratories in nine countries around the world worked to combat the disease.
  • Transparency and a commitment to sharing the best available scientific information led to a better outcome.
  • Clear and effective communication among scientists, policy makers, and the public helped avoid SARS deaths in the United States.
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    "SARS: A Pandemic Prevented (2013)"
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Epidemic Ethics: Four Lessons from the Current Ebola Outbreak - Australian Institute of... - 0 views

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Ebola International Relations Global Public Health

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  • The spread of Ebola virus occurs because health infrastructure in the region is fragmented, under-resourced, or non-existent. And the therapeutic response to the illness is constrained by failure of markets to drive drug and vaccine development that would help the world’s
  • But drugs and a vaccine are being sent to the region, after a ruling from an ethics panel convened by the World Health Organization decided their use was acceptable even though they haven’t been definitively shown to be safe or effective.
  • Think about it this way: if Ebola virus outbreaks had occurred in New York, London, or Sydney, effective therapies surely would have been developed long ago.
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  • The second is to accept that we must act to treat infection and reduce its spread, as the WHO has already done, by approving the fast-tracking of compassionate access to promising but still untested medications and vaccines.
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