As an African beacon of public health, South Africa should be doing more in the fight against the Ebola crisis.

Professor Frans Viljoen of the Pretoria University Human Rights Centre says South Africa should step up and be prominent in the battle against the worst Ebola outbreak the world has seen.

Professor Frans Viljoen was speaking at a forum organised by Pretoria Univeristy

He acknowledges the mobile laboratory South Africa sent to West Africa to help curb the spread of Ebola.

But it should be more than supplying equipment.

The West is correctly being criticised for being slow to react to the Ebola outbreak.

But other African countries could also have responded more quickly and more substantially to the crisis.

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