World Health Summit - Aid Agencies Criticise Slow Ebola Response

CLICK HERE - VIDEO - World Health Summit
Aid Agencies Criticise Slow Ebola Response
Aid agencies fighting Ebola say the international community has been 'woefully underprepared' in tackling the crisis.

CLICK HERE - M 8 Alliance - Berlin Declaration on Ebola
World Health Summit 2014, Berlin October 19 to 22, 2014
(1 page .PDF document)

submitted by George Hurlburt

Special Symposium at the WHS 2014
Ebola: A Wake-Up Call for Global Health

With respect to the Ebola crisis, the World Health Summit has organized a special symposium "Ebola: A Wake-Up Call for Global Health" in association with the German Federal Ministry of Health and the German Federal Foreign Office, held on October 20 from 08:30 to 10:00 (Program >>>).

The Ebola outbreak has been a wakeup call for medicine and global health. It has clearly shown that neglecting to build effective health systems in the poorest countries has a catastrophic effect in the face of an outbreak of a highly infectious disease. No specific effective treatment exists - a fact that draws attention to the neglect of research for drugs and vaccines for tropical diseases.

Ebola has also drawn attention to major gaps in global health governance. The requirements of the International Health Regulations have not been met by the most vulnerable countries; the response to the outbreak has been too slow at national and international levels.

The symposium discussed the next steps for carrying forward actions concerning this essential issue for medicine and global health.

(CLICK HERE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION)