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Preventing another Ebola outbreak in Liberia
After an Ebola outbreak was declared in Guinea earlier this year, there was a need to increase epidemic surveillance and prepare for potential Ebola patients in neighboring areas of Liberia. Rita M...
Liberia: MSF provides training for visiting hospital staff
**MONROVIA, Liberia, March 8, 2021—**Eighteen staff members from Liberia's James N. Davis Jr. (JDJ) Memorial Hospital have completed a seven-day training program at the Doctors Without...
Liberia: Mental health and epilepsy patients more vulnerable during COVID-19 crisis
NEW YORK/MONROVIA, Liberia, October 6, 2020 —The COVID-19 pandemic has created many challenges for mental health and epilepsy patients in Liberia, leading to greater social isolation and disrupting...
MSF supports efforts to treat COVID-19 in Liberia
Liberia has closed its borders and declared a state of emergency in response to an outbreak of COVID-19, after confirming its first case on 16 March when a resident returning from overseas was...
Community awareness and treatment changes lives for those with epilepsy
Interview One of the world's most common neurological diseases, epilepsy affects nearly 50 million people, but in low-income countries more than 75 per cent of people with epilepsy do not have access...
Liberia: A growing cohort of epilepsy patients shows how life-changing treatment is possible
One of the world's most common neurological diseases, epilepsy affects nearly 50 million people, but in low-income countries more than 75 percent of people with epilepsy do not have access to...
Liberia: MSF opens paediatric surgery programme
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a paediatric surgical programme at Bardnesville Junction Hospital (BJH) on the outskirts of Liberia's capital Monrovia on 11 January, with a goal of making...
Liberia: The psychological scars of Ebola
Interview with MSF psychiatrist Frédéric Gelly Two years after the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, survivors, as well as their families and health workers, are gradually rebuilding their...
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West Africa: MSF closes final Ebola projects for survivors
More than two and a half years after the Ebola outbreak officially began, MSF is now closing its last projects in West Africa dedicated to caring for people who survived the disease. The Ebola...
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Ebola Crisis Update - 14 January 2016
Global overview • Liberia: The last patient was declared negative on 4 December. The countdown has started again and should be over 14 January. • Guinea: Guinea was declared free of Ebola on 28...
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End of ebola outbreak in West Africa: world must learn lesson for future outbreaks, says MSF
14 January, 2016. As Liberia today celebrates 42 days without any new Ebola infections - effectively marking the end of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the international medical humanitarian...
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The Long Shadow of Ebola
After two years of epic struggle, the largest Ebola epidemic in history may finally be coming to an end. On January 15, if no new cases are recorded, Liberia will be the last country to be declared...
Ebola: Antimalarial drug reduced patient mortality by 31%
Geneva/New York, January 7, 2015- A malaria drug may have reduced risk of dying among a group of Ebola patients in Liberia during the height of the outbreak in 2014, according to a retrospective...
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GIS Support for the MSF Ebola response in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - Case Study, 2nd edition
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As part of the 2014–2015 Ebola response operation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland (MSF-CH) started to systematically deploy dedicated...
MSF welcomes news that Liberia is Ebola-free while urging continued vigilance
Medical organisation warns that outbreak is not yet over and cross-border surveillance must continue London/Monrovia 9 May 2015 – After 42 days with no recorded cases of Ebola, Liberia has been...
Liberia: MSF hands over ELWA 3 to the Liberian Ministry of Health
Today the international medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hands over the ELWA 3 Ebola management center in Monrovia to the Liberian Ministry of Health/IMS. The Ministry will run the...
Liberia: Rebooting public health services
While the number of Ebola-infected patients in Liberia has steadily declined, MSF is assisting the local health system to safely restore medical services. On March 20, a new case of Ebola was...
Liberia releases last Ebola patient – MSF response
Commenting on the news that Liberia has released its last Ebola patient, Vickie Hawkins, Director of MSF UK, said: "This is an encouraging sign for Liberia. However, there is no room for complacency...
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Catching up with Ebola
While many Ebola medical facilities are now running across West Africa, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is adapting its response with mobile and reactive teams to address new chains of contamination. ...