by Benson Agoha
The announcement was made by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, as he updated the world body in New York on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Friday October 17, 2014.
Even in biblical times, Ebola will still have been identified as a plague as it has been described today, except that science has come some distance. And no one one has been talking of a Prophet pronouncing a course.
The world expects better news from Africa than `poverty and disease'. Ebola has the potential to reverse the inroads the UN has made against poverty in the continent.
Even Prof. Peter Piot who discovered ebola in Belgium in 1976 has been alarmed at the `unimaginable tragedy' that has visited the world.
For all the bad news surrounding ebola, the UN says "we know how to stop it". And when Anthony Banbury. the Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response told the Security Council, his tweet got an immediate response "Do you?"
The UN has a simple formular to beat ebola: doing so by "a rapid and robust response." And as with every other major problem facing the world now the fight against Ebola requires greater international cooperation.
Ban Ki Moon has also formed a Global Ebola Response Coalition and says the "United Nations will continue to work with all partners to bring the disease under control." But bringing ebola under control is a challenging and herculian task only international generosity can achieve.
For this reason the UN is appealing for $1bn for a `FAST' attack against ebola. FAST is an acronym for `Flexible, Accountable, Strategic and Transparent'. The fund is to help reduce the rate of transmission by December 1st, say Ban Ki Moon.
"Ebola transmission is rising exponentially. That means more cases, more deaths, more grief, and more poverty" Ban Ki Moon said, promising that "The United Nations will continue to work with all partners to bring the disease under control."
To fight ebola, every day matters and every contribution really counts.
To keep a tab on the Global Ebola Response or donate towards ebola relief, follow the following: @ebola_response or @UNMEER.
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| UN Secretary General: Ban Ki Moon |
With a $1bn target to be raised by December 1, in order to combat ebola, the UN has highlighted the danger of ebola - a disease that gapples with and kills victims within a short time.
The announcement was made by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, as he updated the world body in New York on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Friday October 17, 2014.
Even in biblical times, Ebola will still have been identified as a plague as it has been described today, except that science has come some distance. And no one one has been talking of a Prophet pronouncing a course.
Figures attributed to the ebola deaths have been varying. And with as much as 5,000 being reported in just a few months, the disease has sure left it's mark.
The position of the fight right now is, as the world gradually wakes up to this real nightmare, and as John Kerry rightly said two days ago, to ensure it does not become a scourge for which the world will have to fight for decades.
Anyone who has been attentive to warnings from the mouth of the US Secretary of State in recent times, should have reason to worry. John Kerry has become something of a prophet and much of his warnings have turnedout to be happening within a short time.
He warned of imminent bomb blasts in the Northern part of Nigeria, the monsters struct within a short time of his warning. He warned the world on the danger ISIS posed, it was not long before the group's ambitions became manifest aggravated. He has now warned on EBOLA.
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| Anthony Banbury. Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response |
A disease that has the potential to kill in enmass in such a short time, with no effective control drug is indeed a serious afflication. And as US scribe Ban Ki Moon remarked on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, ebola is a threat not only to health, but to economic progress.
And although the epidemic is as at now more pronounced in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the fact that countries with huge populations, like Nigeria, and advanced countries like the US, Britain, France and Spain, have now all reported cases, stemming from their humanitarian efforts in affected areas, exposes the ease with which an epidemic can become worse. No one wants that.
The world expects better news from Africa than `poverty and disease'. Ebola has the potential to reverse the inroads the UN has made against poverty in the continent.
Even Prof. Peter Piot who discovered ebola in Belgium in 1976 has been alarmed at the `unimaginable tragedy' that has visited the world.
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| (Prof. Peter Piot - a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire.) |
The UN has a simple formular to beat ebola: doing so by "a rapid and robust response." And as with every other major problem facing the world now the fight against Ebola requires greater international cooperation.
Ban Ki Moon has also formed a Global Ebola Response Coalition and says the "United Nations will continue to work with all partners to bring the disease under control." But bringing ebola under control is a challenging and herculian task only international generosity can achieve.
For this reason the UN is appealing for $1bn for a `FAST' attack against ebola. FAST is an acronym for `Flexible, Accountable, Strategic and Transparent'. The fund is to help reduce the rate of transmission by December 1st, say Ban Ki Moon.
"Ebola transmission is rising exponentially. That means more cases, more deaths, more grief, and more poverty" Ban Ki Moon said, promising that "The United Nations will continue to work with all partners to bring the disease under control."
To fight ebola, every day matters and every contribution really counts.
To keep a tab on the Global Ebola Response or donate towards ebola relief, follow the following: @ebola_response or @UNMEER.
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