Press Release: New surge of Ebola cases in West Africa: European Union increases its emergency funding

On 24 June 2014, the European Commission allocated an additional €500 000 to enhance interventions aimed at curbing the worsening Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This brings the total of Commission aid to €1.9 million.

The funding will enable three organisations to sustain and expand their actions: Médecins Sans Frontières for the clinical management of cases, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for community outreach and sensitization, and the World Health Organisation for the reinforcement of the countries’ health responses.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Ebola in West Africa: EU increases its immediate health assistance to €1.1 million http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-ebola-in-west-africa-eu-increases-its-immediate-health-assistance-to-e1-1-million/

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