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SUMMARY:Problematizing The Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin: Si
 erra Leone Health Infrastructure on the Eve of Ebola  - Prof Ibrahim Abdul
 lah\, University of Sierra Leone
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:The responsibility for responding to outbreaks of infectious d
 iseases like EVD is shared by national governments\, regional health agenc
 ies\, and international organisations. The communication and cooperation b
 etween these parties have been vital in containing previous outbreaks of E
 VD. The failure of communication\, cooperation\, and action in the MRU epi
 demic underlies some of the core questions of the MRU experience. Why\, in
  this era of globalization\, ubiquitous information\, and super-fast commu
 nication\, was the accumulated knowledge and expertise around EVD not quic
 kly utilized in the case of the MRU countries? Why were local communities\
 , the national public health systems\, and governments in Sierra Leone\, G
 uinea\, and Liberia unable to respond effectively to the spread of the out
 break? Why did international organisations\, especially the World Health O
 rganisation (WHO)\, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
 \, and Medecins San Frontieres (MSF)\, which had been instrumental and rel
 atively successful in curtailing previous outbreaks\, fail to contain the 
 initial outbreak in late 2013 and early 2014? What did it take to get MRU 
 governments\, the international organisations\, and the international comm
 unity in general to respond robustly to the epidemic? How did the EVD outb
 reak of 2013-2015 become the largest\, most widespread and deadliest in hi
 story\, infecting more than 28\,616 and Killing 11\,310 people?  What was 
 it about the MRU EVD outbreak that was different? This lecture will attemp
 t to provide answers to these questions by looking at the broken health in
 frastructure in Sierra Leone on the eve of the MRU EVD.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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