This case study looks at the approaches and innovations of private sector waste management companies, including in relation to their access to finance. The focus is on Freetown Waste Transformers (FWT), chosen for its pioneering role as a waste-to-energy company in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and its successful experiences leveraging both …
The money was sent to ActionAid International on behalf of the board of directors, staff and management of ActionAid International The Gambia. The donation, which included personal commitment of board members and staff, is in response to an appeal by the chief executive officer of ActionAid International, Adriano Campolina, to …
The transmission of Ebola in West Africa is on the decline, the World Health Organization has announced. Sierra Leone, however, warns that unsafe burial practices threaten to turn that trend around again. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa …
Scientists are warning of a real risk that the Ebola virus disease could become endemic in west Africa if efforts to end the epidemic slacken as the number of cases falls. All previous outbreaks of Ebola were stamped out within months and the virus disappeared from the human population each …
During the seven days leading up to February 1, 124 new cases were confirmed across three west African countries The weekly number of new Ebola cases registered across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone rose in the last week of January, marking the first hike in 2015, the World Health Organisation …
MONROVIA – Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly fever and prevent future outbreaks. The epidemic has killed more than 8,900 people in West Africa since it began more than a …
WHO also added that the response to the Ebola epidemic has now moved to a second phase The number of new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the three worst-affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has fallen to the lowest level since late June, the World Health …
Scientists tracking the Ebola outbreak in Guinea say the virus has mutated. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in France, which first identified the outbreak last March, are investigating whether it could have become more contagious. More than 22,000 people have been infected with Ebola and 8,795 have died in Guinea, …
The Ebola epidemic seems to have reached a turning point, as cases fall in all three of the worst-hit countries of west Africa, according to World Health Organisation figures. Last week there were fewer than 150 cases reported, with Sierra Leone accounting for most of them – 117 of the …
There has been a "turning point" in the Ebola crisis, with cases falling in the three affected countries, World Health Organization officials say. Just eight cases were detected in Liberia in the last week down from a peak of 500-a-week in September. Guinea and Sierra Leone have also seen falls. …
Experimental Ebola vaccines to be tested in West Africa could go through an alternative path for U.S. regulatory approval, since a waning epidemic is making it difficult to gather the full array of data normally gathered in clinical trials. The vaccines, developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, GlaxoSmithKline …
A team of Indian medical workers, who played an important role in eradicating polio from hotspots such as UP, Bihar and West Bengal, has joined the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The group of 29, selected from a pool of 1,500, were flown to Ebola’s Ground Zero …
BAMAKO – Mali’s health minister declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus. Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to World Health Organization data, has killed more than 8,400 people in neighboring Guinea, Sierra …
Ebola spread throughout West Africa last year after the World Health Organization’s call for a global health corps went unheeded, the agency said today. A WHO review committee convened in 2010 in the aftermath of the swine flu epidemic called for international collaboration to form an “extensive global public health …
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Even as his country registered 19 new Ebola cases over a 24-hour period, Sierra Leone's president is predicting there will be zero new confirmed cases by the end of March. President Ernest Bai Koroma also predicted that his West African country -- one of three …
TO further curb the growing influence of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched a free mobile Application to be used in the campaign against the disease in Africa and other part of the world. The "Ebola-Info-Sharing" mobile App facilitates coordination among organizations responding …
LONDON, England (AP) — The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West Africa. After an expert meeting this week, WHO said there is now enough information to conclude that the two most advanced Ebola vaccines — …
Almost all the deaths and cases have been reported in the three west African countries worst hit by the outbreak The global death toll from the Ebola outbreak centred in west Africa has jumped to 8,235 out of 20,747 recorded cases, the World Health Organization has said. Almost all the …
GENEVA (AP) " The World Health Organization says at least 8,153 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Geneva-based body said Monday that the total number of confirmed, probable and suspected deaths from the disease comes from 20,656 cases in the three most affected countries " …
China on Thursday said it has developed a vaccine to combat the spread of deadly Ebola virus that has killed more than 7,000 people in three West African countries, and the test of the drug on humans would begin this month. Defence ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told reporters that the …
