LONDON (Feb. 4, 2015) — Almost $2.9 billion was pledged by the end of 2014 in donations to fight West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, yet only around 40 percent had actually reached affected countries, researchers said on Tuesday.
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GENEVA (Jan. 26, 2015) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday it will create a contingency fund and an emergency workforce to respond quickly to crises after strong criticism of the agency’s delay in confronting the Ebola epidemic.
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GENEVA (Jan. 26, 2015) — The World Health Organization has proposed reforms that could overhaul its structure after botching the response to the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, a sluggish performance that experts say cost thousands of lives.
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January 21, 2015 — A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN’s AIDS envoy said Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS (Jan. 21, 2015) — Close to 1,000 new cases were recorded in the last three weeks despite recent progress in fighting Ebola in West Africa and “the fight is far from won,” the U.N. mission chief said Tuesday.