The Shifting Ebola Epidemic

NEW YORK TIMES                                                                                         Nov. 16, 2014

EDITORIAL

Recent gains in controlling the Ebola epidemic in West Africa have been encouraging, but they offer no reason for complacency. In Liberia, the hardest-hit country, the rate of new infections has declined in some areas, and several treatment units have been reporting empty beds for more than a month. But in adjacent Sierra Leone the number of new cases has shot upward, while in Guinea, where the epidemic started, the incidence of new cases appears to have stabilized over all, with growth in some districts and declines in others. All told, Ebola has infected more than 14,000 people in West Africa and killed more than 5,000 of them...

These developments suggest that donor nations need to increase their contributions of money, materials, and teams of doctors and nurses to fight the epidemic. Oxfam, an international aid organization, reported last Wednesday on the performance of members of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies. It said that four countries — Argentina, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — have yet to make any contribution and that four others — Brazil, India, Mexico and Russia — should be doing a lot more based on the size of their economies

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Link to Oxfam report

http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2014-11-12/ebola-almost-half-g20-countries-have-failed-deliver