More Ebola funds called for as diseases spread rapidly outpaces aid

From Aid | The Guardian Wed Oct 15 2014, 16:09:45

Funds, personnel and equipment arriving too late or not at all as WHO warns of hefty shortfall in global aid response to Ebola

Governments have pledged millions of dollars of aid, volunteer medics are signing up to work on the frontline and individuals are digging into their pockets to address what the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls unquestionably the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times. But with death tolls relentlessly rising, the biggest donors are increasingly calling on other countries to step up.

While there has, so far, been no naming and shaming of countries deemed to be dragging their feet, President Barack Obama reiterated on Tuesday that the world as a whole is not doing enough.

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