23 May 2018

New Ebola threat

A new outbreak of Ebola has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2014-16 some 28,000 people were infected in West Africa. 11,600 of them died.

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5 April 2017

Courageous Ebola nurse Salomé Karwah dies

Salomé Karwah was an Ebola survivor who returned to the hospitals of Liberia to tend to the sick and dying during the epidemic of 2014. Now she has fallen victim to the appalling healthcare endured by ordinary people in Liberia as across most of West Africa.

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3 December 2014

World health crises show: Capitalism kills!

Ebola: Doctor and Socialist Party member Jon Dale updates on the latest situation in the Ebola crisis

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5 November 2014

Ebola virus crisis - no profit, no vaccine

In November 2010 the medical journal The Lancet ran a seminar on Ebola saying: "Previously, the usefulness of an Ebola virus vaccine was disputed, because of the disease's rarity, little interest by industry, and the potential cost"

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Health workers in Liberia have been on strike demanding better protection from Ebola virus and improved pay

22 October 2014

Ebola outbreak: one face of austerity

The World Health Organisation axed 300 of its 2,400 jobs in 2011. Cuts in governments' contributions slashed its budget by 20%. Its director-general, Margaret Chan, described "a new and enduring era of economic austerity"

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17 October 2014

Black History Month - London socialist meetings

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2 October 2014

Ebola crisis: Consequence of profit before health

The US sending 3,000 troops to Liberia to build isolation hospitals, while Sierra Leone has implemented a national lock-down, underlines how serious the Ebola epidemic has become

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