New York University Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/new-york-university/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 New York University Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/new-york-university/ 32 32 Slow payment allowed Ebola to spread https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/slow-payment-allowed-ebola-spread/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/slow-payment-allowed-ebola-spread/ The cost of fighting the world’s worst Ebola outbreak may have been escalated by the international donors’ delay in providing promised money. The New York University study published in the British Medical Jounrnal says slow funding may have allowed the disease to spread. The corner’s been turned in fighting this Ebola outbreak that’s left more […]

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The cost of fighting the world’s worst Ebola outbreak may have been escalated by the international donors’ delay in providing promised money.

The New York University study published in the British Medical Jounrnal says slow funding may have allowed the disease to spread.
The corner’s been turned in fighting this Ebola outbreak that’s left more than 8 800 dead mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Karen Grespin, a specialist in health policy at
New York University’s tracked both requests for funding by the UN’s World
Health Organisation as the crisis escalated, and when payment of donations pledged was actually made.
Most of this was took more than six months by which time the cost had rocketed from $4,8 million to one-and-a-half billion dollars

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