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African States and WHO to Launch $100 Ebola Response Plan

by Himabindu Venkatakrishnan on  August 1, 2014 at 6:07 PM Tropical Disease News
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Presidents of West African countries suffering the world's worst ever Ebola outbreak meet the Head of WHO in Guinea on Friday to launch a $100 million (75 million euros) emergency joint response plan, WHO said.
African States and WHO to Launch $100 Ebola Response Plan
African States and WHO to Launch $100 Ebola Response Plan

"The scale of the Ebola outbreak" requires WHO, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone "to take the response to a new level," WHO Director General Margaret Chan said in a statement.

Source: AFP
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