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Kim Yi Dionne Smith College Challenges No recorded previous outbreak though there is evidence of previous exposure Outbreak across borders requires coordination across governments Intensity of Spread ID: 778825

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The Challenges to Ebola Response

Kim Yi Dionne

Smith College

Slide2

ChallengesNo recorded previous outbreak (though there is evidence of previous exposure).

Outbreak across borders requires coordination across governments.

Slide3

Intensity of Spread

Slide4

ChallengesNo recorded previous outbreak (though there is evidence of previous exposure).

Outbreak across borders requires coordination across governments.All three of the heavily affected countries have weak health infrastructure.

Slide5

Capacity to Respond

Slide6

ChallengesNo recorded previous outbreak (though there is evidence of previous exposure).

Outbreak across borders requires coordination across governments.All three of the heavily affected countries have weak health infrastructure.International response was slow and then reactive/defensive.

Slide7

Timeline of events

[Mar 25: CDC announces Guinea outbreak][Mar 30: Liberia reports two cases][May 25: 1

st

confirmed case in Sierra Leone]

Aug 8: WHO declares and international health emergency

Aug 12: UN special envoy appointed

Sept 16: President Obama announces $750 million planned response by U.S.

Sept 18: UNMEER established

Slide8

Slow and weak international response

April 10: WHO says $4.8 million is needed for the response.July 31: WHO says $103 million is needed for the response.Sept 18: UN says $1 billion is needed for the response.

Slide9

What hasn’t worked?

Quarantine in West Point neighborhood in Monrovia, LiberiaLate June: Liberian and Sierra Leonean presidents made threats of prosecuting anyone “harboring” the infected

Closed borders and suspended flights

Photo taken during West Point Quarantine, Monrovia, Liberia, by John Moore, Getty Images

Photo taken during West Point Quarantine, Monrovia, Liberia, by Abbas

Dulleh

, Associated Press

Slide10

What is working?

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A common statement from the West

“We know what works…”

Slide12

Who is responding?

C-17 Jet in Monrovia, Sept. 18 by Joe Penney (Reuters)

MSF volunteer preparing CDC doctor to enter Ebola unit in Liberia (CDC Global)

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Who is responding?

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Who is responding?

Locals: the governments of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; health workers; burial teams; contact tracing teams, and more.International agencies: World Health Organization (WHO); United Nations (esp. UNICEF); Red Cross; Doctors without Borders (aka MSF), and more.

Powerful donors: US, UK, France

Others: Cuba (doctors); Malaysia (rubber gloves)

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What might work?Provide protection for local health workers

Pay local health workersEvacuate all health workers who get sick, not just the ones from Western countriesWork with and through local leaders

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What new challenges might the response create?

Militarization of humanitarian aidFocus on potential Westerners who get sickMultiple donor countries, still unclear on coordination

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Preliminary Data from Monrovia on Ebola’s Economic Impact

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Organizations You Can Support

Doctors without Borders/MSF USA: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm

Wellbody

Sierra Leone:

http://wellbodyalliance.org/donate/

LastMileHealth

(Liberia):

https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/lastmilehealth?code=equity1847

Direct Relief:

https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?df_id=2105&2105.donation=form1&set.SingleDesignee=1541&_ga=1.224985114.1681973088.1408417880