The Ebola Outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone - 0 views
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The Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) created a ‘solidarity fund’ to contain and manage the outbreak, [17] and the World Health Organisation convened an emergency meeting of regional health ministers in Accra to strengthen surveillance operations and facilitate cross-border consultations. [18] The World Health Organisation also opened a Sub-Regional Outbreak Coordinating Center in Conakry. [19] Doctors Without Borders has deployed 300 personnel to assist in health care facilities, and both the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Union have provided scientific personnel and resources to assist with laboratory testing and government coordination. [20]
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The World Health Organisation fulfilled its coordinating mission by organising a meeting of regional health officials in Accra in early July—but that was three-and-a-half months after the first report of the disease. WHO’s Sub-Regional Outbreak Coordination Center has the potential to be a useful resource, but it took nearly four months from the outbreak’s beginning until WHO began such operations. Given how quickly Ebola spreads and its virulence, such a delay helped the disease gain a foothold in the region. Arresting the spread of infectious diseases requires quicker action.
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First, the current response needs to be ratcheted up. Opening sub-regional command centers, deploying personnel from governmental and nongovernmental sources, and providing financial resources are all important—but they need to be done in greater number and with greater urgency. The initial efforts are not necessarily failures; they are just too small and slow in response to the overwhelming nature of this unprecedented outbreak.
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Epidemic Ethics: Four Lessons from the Current Ebola Outbreak - Australian Institute of... - 0 views
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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
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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.
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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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Framing Health and Foreign Policy: lessons for global health diplomacy - 10 views
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This article talks about how health is becoming part of diplomacy and how it is being discussed as part of security: "Several governments have issued specific foreign policy statements on global health and a new term, global health diplomacy , has been coined to describe the processes by which state and non-state actors engage to position health issues more prominently in foreign policy decision-making". "Security, alongside development, is the most recently encountered frame in the documents we reviewed, with the securitization of health now claimed to be a permanent feature of public health governance in the 21st century. Although "health security" is recent in coinage, its history dates back at least to the 14th century when epidemics threatened to destabilize sovereign power and to compromise the material interest of the elite groups".
OpenIDEO - Fighting Ebola - 1 views
UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency - 0 views
Theory in Action: Liberalism - YouTube - 0 views
Night of the Living Wonks - 1 views
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The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses also poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand the world. If the dead begin to rise from the grave and attack the living, what thinking would -- or should -- guide the human response?
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For our purposes, a zombie is defined as a reanimated being occupying a human corpse, with a strong desire to eat human flesh
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Because they can spread across borders and threaten states and civilizations, these zombies should command the attention of scholars and policymakers.
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night of the living dead - YouTube - 1 views
One World, Rival Theories - 2 views
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He sketched out three dominant approaches: realism, liberalism, and an updated form of idealism called "constructivism."
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Realism focuses on the shifting distribution of power among states.
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Liberalism highlights the rising number of democracies and the turbulence of democratic transitions.
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Photographer Captures Tens of Thousands Fleeing ISIS, Entering Turkey - 0 views
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