17 October 2014
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to step up its efforts to respond to the Ebola crisis and turn pledges into action, while the World Health Organization warned of continuously deteriorating situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. (more…)
Source: UN News Centre | UN chief stresses need for urgent global action as Ebola continues deadly rampage
14 October 2014
Senior UN officials warned that the virus is ‘far ahead’ of the global response as it is morphing from a local to an international crisis requiring all countries to scale up efforts and financial commitments to bring an end to the scourge. (more…)
Source: UN News Centre | 'We are late, but not too late to fight and win this battle,' against Ebola – UN
6 October 2014
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is illustrative of a global health issue which requires collective global action. The rapid spread of the virus is alarming health experts. At the time of writing, the number of reported deaths has reached more than 3,338, and the virus could spread even further across borders. States that are most affected are Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, but Ebola cases have also been reported in Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Calls for concerted action and international assistance (more…)
29 September 2014
At the UN General Assembly, the President of Ghana noted that just as Ebola was able to freely pass through West African borders, so could drugs, arms, human traffickers and terrorists, and called for greater cooperation and coordination to conquer common threats.
17 September 2014
President Obama urged world powers to accelerate the global response to the Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa, warning that unless health care workers, medical equipment and treatment centers were swiftly deployed, the disease could take hundreds of thousands of lives. Mr. Obama said at a meeting with doctors who had just returned from West Africa that the world ‘has the responsibility to act, to step up and to do more. The United States intends to do more.’ He announced a major American deployment to Liberia and Senegal of medicine, equipment and 3,000 military personnel. (more…)
Source: The New York Times | Obama Presses Leaders to Speed Ebola Response