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On Friday, Staff of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Sierra Leone went to work in yellow dresses, giving momentum to a Yellow Ribbon campaign launched in February by the Sierra Leone…
Paris – Today the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMEER, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, wrapped up a two-day visit to Paris where he met senior officials to discuss ways to end Ebola transmissions…
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will begin conducting Ebola vaccination trials in Guinea this week, which if found effective, could be the “game-changer to finally end the epidemic” that has…
Representatives of United Nations organizations engaged in the response against Ebola today pledged their support to the worst-affected West African countries in “each stage of this journey; the drive to zero, the early…
The international community is now faced with “a critical turning point” in defeating Ebola, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a United Nations Headquarters event last night, as he urged support to the affected countries…
Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma last Friday visited some of those quarantined in Aberdeen village, central Freetown and Tombo fishing village, in the outskirts of the city, to mobilize inhabitants for the Ebola…
The United Nations and the European Union (EU) will host a High-Level International Conference on Ebola in Brussels, on 3 March 2015. Chaired by Neven Mimica, the EU Commissioner of International cooperation and Development…
New cases of Ebola rose again in Guinea and transmission remains widespread in Sierra Leone, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported as it and the UN Ebola response mission both raised concerns about…
On the second day of his visit to West Africa, Thomas Shannon, Counselor to Secretary of State John Kerry, and a U.S. delegation visited the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) headquarters in Accra, Ghana to…
On a day when there were just two Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, President Ernest Koroma on Thursday said that the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s initiative to establish the Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) was…
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that it has approved for use a rapid diagnostic test kit for Ebola that can provide results in 15 minutes and correctly identify 92 percent of patients…
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, told the United Nations General Assembly today that the final phase of “getting to zero” cases may well be the hardest, saying the hunt to track down the…