Ebola Outbreak in Africa: A Looming Development Crisis
The United Nations says the outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6 billion as underreporting and conflict hinder containment.
- On Tuesday, The United Nations warned that an Ebola outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs, potentially triggering a development crisis across the continent.
- The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has infected 1,307 people and killed 377 in the Democratic Republic of Congo since May 15, with additional cases reported in Uganda.
- Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya noted funding needs surged to about $1.4 billion recently, though international partners have only disbursed a small portion of the approximately $910 million pledged.
- Health workers face armed conflict and widespread community mistrust, prompting The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn that cases could eventually exceed 20,000 in the DRC.
- Damien Mama, United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative in Congo, stated that with resources, the outbreak can be contained; otherwise, "this health emergency risks becoming a much deeper and prolonged development crisis.
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Ebola outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6b, UN says
The United Nations said on Tuesday that an Ebola outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs, potentially causing a development crisis. The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no tested vaccine or treatment, has infected 1,307 people and killed 377 in the Democratic Republic of Congo since being declared on May 15, the government says. A much smaller number of cases have been r…
Trade stalls, borders close, almost 1 million people slip into poverty: how a health crisis threatens to become the economic disaster for Central Africa.The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa threatens to plunge almost a million people into poverty in addition. Tens of thousands of jobs are in danger, and teaching in schools and training centres is interrupted in many places, the UN development programme UNDP stated. Trade flows are disrupted, bor…
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