WHO runs low on cash for Ebola but progress key before rainy season

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23-01-2015 | 10:17
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WHO runs low on cash for Ebola but progress key before rainy season
Progress in halting the spread of Ebola in West Africa will depend on mobilizing funding and aid workers before the rainy season hits in April-May, but the World Health Organization is set to run out of cash in mid-February, a senior WHO official said on Friday.

The number of Ebola cases week-on-week has declined for each of the past four weeks in hard-hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which is promising, said Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO assistant director-general in charge of the Ebola response.

"We run out of cash in mid-February, that is four or five months before that virus is going to stop in a best case scenario," Aylward told a news briefing in Geneva on Friday.

The U.N. health agency still needs $260 million for its $350 million budget for Ebola for the next six months, he said. "If you go into wet season with this disease you are looking at another hard year or plus," he added.
 
 
 
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