6000 Liberian Kids Lost Their Parents To Ebola: Painful Story Of What Happened To Orphans
More than 5,900 Liberian children lost one or both parents to Ebola. Some are with a surviving parent, others found loving homes with friends or relatives, but many have been left orphaned on the streets or are finding it tough to adapt to new lives with host families. Sitting outside her former home, a now-abandoned […]
Ebola Hits Nigeria Again, 1 Dead, 10 Quarantined
An Ebola scare has been reported in southern Nigeria, a year after the country was declared free of the virus, with a man reportedly dead shortly after being admitted to hospital in Calabar, Cross Rivers State. At least 10 people have been quarantined at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, after coming into contact with […]
American Doctor, Rick Sacra Cured Of Ebola Continues Work In Liberia
This time last year, Dr. Rick Sacra was given a second chance at life.On Sept. 25, 2014, the 52-year-old Massachusetts physician had just been discharged from an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital after being treated and cured of Ebola. Sacra had contracted the deadly virus while delivering babies in a Christian mission hospital in Liberia. Rushed back […]
IMF Director Here to Discuss Liberia’s Recovery Plan
After seeing ‘firsthand the progress that the Liberian people have made in the fight against Ebola’, Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in Liberia for two days beginning today, September 10, to engage with policymakers and other representatives of the Liberian society. At the head of a high-powered IMF […]
Ebola’s Victims of the Future – Pregnant Women
For the last 13 years, Sierra Leone has seen a dramatic decrease in its maternal mortality rate, due in large part to the introduction of free health care for pregnant women. One of the most devastating and yet rarely acknowledged impacts of the Ebola epidemic is that it threatens to undo all this good work. […]
At Security Council, Top UN Health Officials Spotlight Role of Emergency Preparedness in Ebola Fight
The deadly Ebola outbreak which ravaged West Africa for more than a year has demonstrated the increasing importance of emergency preparedness both in Africa and across the world, said two senior United Nations health officials who noted that if the current intense focus on case detection and contact tracing is maintained, the virus could be […]
Liberian President Says Global Ebola Response Fragmented
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the international community response to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia was late and fragmented. At a meeting recently with a visiting United Nations High Level Panel (HLP) on the Global Response to Health Crises in Monrovia President Sirleaf told the delegation that the international community’s role in outbreak came at […]
Ebola Threat Is Real – Let Us All Take Care
This is not the first time Tanzanians have woken up one bright sunny morning to be told to take precautionary measures against the deadly Ebola virus. And on all these occasions, the bottom line has been that it had been calling the shots in this or that neighbouring country, especially those to the north-east – […]
A Brief Look At Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in Tackling the Ebola Health Crisis
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone continue to be vigilant for Ebola even as the United Nations mission for Ebola is shutting down its offices across Guinea. RFI takes a brief look at all three countries for an update. Guinea “Ebola is not over until it’s completely over… so we must continue to be very careful. […]
WHO Announces Possible Ebola ‘Game Changer’ Vaccine
Having achieved its “core objective” of scaling up global action to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response will officially wind down today, transferring its role to the World Health Organization (WHO), which just announced that an experimental vaccine being tested in Guinea appears to be highly […]
