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After the outbreak, what have we learned? An MSF expert looks at the long shadow cast by Ebola

January 14, 2016

Luis Encinas is an Ebola expert with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He looks back at the outbreak that devastated West Africa, and ahead to what should come next.
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As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa formally ends, MSF says world must learn lessons for future outbreaks

January 14, 2016

As Liberia today celebrates 42 days without any new Ebola infections — effectively marking the end of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa — the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the global health community to draw on lessons learned in order to be better prepared for future similar outbreaks.
In the News

With the Ebola outbreak officially over in Sierra Leone, an MSF health specialist looks at remaining challenges

November 07, 2015

The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has now been declared over on. But in neighbouring Guinea, people are still being infected by a disease that has claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa since March 2014.
Op-ed

The Ebola fight isn't over: MSF international president Dr. Joanne Liu on what it will take to cross the finish line

August 13, 2015

This essay was first published on Time.com on August 12, 2015.

By Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Dispatches

The fight against Ebola is more hopeful than ever, but it's not over: MSF Canada's Stephen Cornish on the ground in West Africa

May 05, 2015

MSF Canada Executive Director Stephen Cornish recently returned from Sierra Leone and Guinea, where he visited Ebola treatment centres run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) just over a year since the start of the epidemic that has devastated parts of West Africa.
Press release

Pushed to the Limit and Beyond: MSF on the global Ebola response one year into the deadliest outbreak in history

March 23, 2015

One year ago today, an outbreak of Ebola in the West African country of Guinea was announced. Since then, nearly 10,000 people have died of the disease, and it has not yet been defeated. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today released a critical analysis of the Ebola epidemic over the past year, revealing the shortcomings of the global response to the crisis and warning that the outbreak, despite an overall decline in cases, is not yet over. 
In the News

'Ebola is not over until there are zero cases:' MSF's Dr. Joanne Liu on the challenge that remains in West Africa

March 03, 2015

In Brussels earlier today, the European Commission hosted an international conference on the subject of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. With the one-year anniversary of the outbreak approaching, the purpose of the conference is to discuss ways to accelerate the process of eliminating the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and to make plans for the post-outbreak recovery needs in these countries.

Press release

Clinical trials show experimental Ebola drug can produce positive effect for some patients

February 23, 2015

Initial results of a clinical trial of the experimental drug favipiravir suggest that it can reduce mortality among patients with low levels of the Ebola virus in their blood, but is ineffective for  patients with high viral loads who are very sick with the disease.
Voice from the Field

'No one should slip through the cracks’: An MSF epidemiologist on why tracing Ebola patients is essential

February 09, 2015

The numbers of Ebola patients in West Africa may be going down, but as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) epidemiologist Amanda Tiffany explains below, every last contact needs to be traced in order to help bring the epidemic to an end. She wrote the following from Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, one of the countries hardest hit by the ongoing Ebola outbreak.

 

By Amanda Tiffany
Research article

Q&A: How does MSF care for patients suffering from Ebola?

January 30, 2015

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) public health specialist Dr. Armand Sprecher describes MSF’s clinical protocols for treating Ebola patients, as well as the challenges faced and lessons learned so far during MSF’s response to the world’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak, which is still ongoing in West Africa.

 

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