West Africa MSF: Emergency medical reponse to Ebola outbreak
The current Ebola outbreak across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has surpassed all other outbreaks in terms of cases, deaths and geographic spread. Over the past 30 years, MSF has been responding to several epidemics of hemorrhagic fever in Africa and through this long experience gained a capital expertise. The Guinean Ministry of Health (MoH) requested support from MSF on case management and outbreak control since the beginning of the epidemic. The current Ebola outbreak has the potential to spread outside the affected countries and beyond the region if urgent and relevant containing measures are not put in place.
| Land/Region | Thema | Periode | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Westafrika |
Gesundheit
Infektionskrankheit
Stärkung der Gesundheitssysteme |
09.07.2014
- 30.09.2014 |
CHF 500’000
|
- Ärzte ohne Grenzen
- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Suisse Joined intervention between MSF- Suisse and MSF Belgium. The costs and incomes of the intervention will be shared between the two sections.
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Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD GESUNDHEIT
GESUNDHEIT
Sub-Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD Bekämpfung von Infektionskrankheiten
Politik und Verwaltung im Gesundheitswesen
Querschnittsthemen Projekt berücksichtigt die Geschlechter-Gleichstellung als Querschnittsthema.
Unterstützungsform Projekt- und Programmbeitrag
Projektnummer 7F09159
| Hintergrund |
In March 2014, Guinea notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about cases of Ebola virus Disease, a highly fatal type of hemorrhagic fever. The cases were initially confined to Forested Guinea region with the epicenter being Gueckedou. What started as a rural outbreak has now spread to Conakry the capital of Guinea as well as cross border spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia. The scale of the ongoing outbreak is unprecedented with reports of over 750 cases and 445 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since March 2014 - already far higher than the previous most lethal outbreak which killed 254 people in Congo in 1995. This is the first time that an Ebola outbreak affects West Africa. And for the first time the Ebola virus is circulating in both urban and rural communities. |
| Ziele |
To reduce and contain the spread of the disease and to provide care to the patients |
| Zielgruppen |
Estimated number: 4.726.000. This represents the population of the affected areas in: • Forested Guinea (1 million) • Conakry (2 million) • Télimélé town (16.000)• Lofa region in Liberia (300.000) • Monrovia (1 million) • The Kailahun district in Sierra Leone (410.000) |
| Mittelfristige Wirkungen |
To reduce and contain the spread of the disease and to provide care to the patients in Guinea (prefectures of Guéckédou, Macenta, Kissidougou, Nzerekore, Télimélé and new affected areas as Conakry), in Sierra Leone (in Kailahun district) and in Liberia in Lofa county and in Monrovia. |
| Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt |
DEZA |
| Kreditbereich |
Humanitäre Hilfe |
| Projektpartner |
Vertragspartner Schweizerische Non-Profit-Organisation |
| Budget | Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF 500’000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF 500’000 |
| Projektphasen |
Phase 1 09.07.2014 - 30.09.2014 (Completed) |
