#Ebola : #AfDB mobilizes US$60 million to strengthen Ebola response in West Africa The African Development Bank Group has approved a US $60-million grant investment to help strengthen West Africa’s public health systems in response to the Ebola crisis. The Bank’s Board convened an emergency meeting to curb this global public health emergency. The disease outbreak originated in Guinea in March 2014 and rapidly spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. The epidemic has now been re-graded by to level 3, the highest possible level and classified as a public health emergency. “This is one of the most complicated health crises we have ever known. We are not simply dealing with a health problem but with the breakdown of entire health systems in some of the countries in the (West Africa) region,” AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, told the Board. The grant is awarded to the #WHO Ebola Epidemic Crisis Response Coordination Centre (#CRSCE) based in Conakry, Guinea, created in July by West African health ministers as a platform for monitoring and coordination to strengthen and harmonize technical support to west African countries and to assist in the mobilization of ressources. Read more: bit.ly/1vUb00A
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:43:40 +0000
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