Monday 13 October 2014

Ebola may change how aid is spent on healthcare in Africa

Health worker in protective equipment prepares a sample taken from the body of someone who is suspected to have died from Ebola virus, near Rokupa Hospital By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed major gaps in development aid, prompting a rethink of the balance between building health systems and tackling specific diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. For more than a decade richly-endowed global campaigns funded by governments, philanthropists and celebrities have poured billions of dollars into preventing and treating individual diseases that long plagued Africa. ...




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