How I’m Coping With Life Inside the Ebola Bubble
When Ebola takes away the ability to touch, you have to reinvent the language of compassion. MONROVIA, Liberia — Back in August, I was…
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Ebola Cases in Liberia Are Dropping
Also true: No one knows exactly how many there are. Why is it so hard to count in a public health crisis? Jina Moore…
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Ebola Patients Threaten to Leave Treatment Wards During Health Worker Strike
The health workers in Liberia’s Ebola wards want more equitable hazard pay and more timely salaries. Liberia’s health minister says they’re welcome to stay…
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Liberia’s Ebola Workers Threaten to Strike
Some health care workers think newly announced hazard pay is too low. They say they’re giving the government until Friday to make a change….
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What Are the Chances 1.4 Million People Willl Really Get Ebola? (Not high)
There are hundreds of bits of data behind the apocalyptic estimate from the Centers for Disease Control, but just one of them drove the…
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How Global Health Failed as the Ebola Outbreak Took Hold
Liberians have been sounding the alarm for weeks. Why has real action on Ebola been so slow? MONROVIA, Liberia — Every day, 25 volunteers…
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Ebola is Killing Liberia’s Coffin Business
Everyone is afraid of the dead, so the funeral business is slow. MONROVIA, Liberia — It’s late in the afternoon, and there are plenty…
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A Miracle in Liberia’s Biggest Maternity Ward, Despite Ebola Crisis
The facility shut its doors after its top doctor died, but now it’s bringing babies into the world by the dozen. MONROVIA, Liberia —…
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Peacekeepers in Somalia Accused of Raping and Exploiting Women and Girls
Troops from Uganda and Burundi, deployed under a United Nations mandate to stabilize Somalia, are allegedly exploiting medical services and aid for sex. NAIROBI…
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Meet Some of the Hidden Heroes of Liberia’s Ebola crisis
Nobody asked Jonathan Enders to turn his school’s kitchen into a cafeteria for Ebola’s first responders. It simply needed to be done. MONROVIA, Liberia…
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