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smenegh Meneghini

BBC News - Ebola crisis: Why is the UN response taking so long? - 4 views

www.bbc.com/...world-africa-29654974

International Relations Ebola response logistics

shared by smenegh Meneghini on 23 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • But it is only now, four or six months later, that the great machine of the so-called "international community", the United Nations, is lumbering into action.
  • Imagine trying to set up and run a medium sized multinational company. But then imagine trying to set it up in countries with very bad roads and electricity supply, dodgy telecommunications and mostly badly-educated populations
  • To establish your "multinational company" you have to do some mundane tasks. You have to bring in people from all over the world. Then you have to feed and house them. You have to get them cars and desks and telephones. You have to make sure each bit of the machine knows what the other bits are doing. And that's before your aid workers can move to the front line and actually do their job.
  • smenegh Meneghini on 23 Oct 14
     
    Continue reading the main story Ebola has only really hit the big international headlines in the last few weeks. During that same period, readers may well have also heard about the various aid agencies which are helping out. So, a not unreasonable impression may have formed - that there's a big problem, but it's being dealt with.
Blair Peterson

allAfrica.com: Sierra Leone: WFP And World Bank Scale Up Government Logistical Capacity In Response To Ebola - 0 views

allafrica.com/...201410211760.html

International Relations Ebola World Bank

shared by Blair Peterson on 22 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • This follows a memorandum of understanding between the Government of Sierra Leone and the UN Agencies to implement the US$ 28 million World Bank-funded Ebola Response Project, of which US$ 9.5 million was allocated to WFP to deliver food and non-food items.
  • The World Bank partnership with government and the UN Agencies is part of concerted efforts to stop the rapid spread of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone. It seeks to scale up the country's logistical and operational capacity and mitigate the economic impact on affected communities.
Blair Peterson

BBC News - Ebola crisis: Five ways to break the epidemic - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-us-canada-29242842

International Relations Ebola

shared by Blair Peterson on 24 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • 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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