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And good afternoon everybody. It has been a wonderful day and i was energized by the panel and the networking so thank you all for hanging in with us through a long and very full day. To reduce myself to those of you who may have been here this morning my name is wade warren and im the chief Strategy Officer for development in the chair of the u. S. Chapter of the society for International Development. I am very excited about the panel we are about to have. You cannot come in. Where is alice . I was more excited that the panelists were here. Let me tell you a little bit about this panel. We wanted to have an important plenary here at the end of the day to feature the Millennial Corporation which we have not a lot of time talking about today and will have a fireside chat with Alice Albright who is the ceo. Let me tell you a little bit about them. Ill start with chizi igwe. Chizi igwe is a heartbreaking much appreciated member of the westport she started out leading in our Youth Working
International development. I am excited about the piano. I would be more excited. Let me tell you about this panel, who wanted an important hearing at the end of the day featured the hub fireside chat ego. She helps develop programs in cities and countries where j. P. Morgan served. Before that she worked with oliver and associates and Melinda Gates foundation. She is a proud child of immigrant Family International business is the of international economics. So cute. You dont need much of an introduction to know you are. If you dont know, Child Corporation given working in this area for more than three years. She has been the lead of the education and happenstance. We are delighted you could be with us and ill turn it over. And you all hear us. That afternoon. I hope you enjoy the conference so far. Hopefully we will bring the energy in the conversation, i am excited to be on stage. The legacy had history and where it is going in the future. To start off my shirt congratulations are in
Looking at one facility or multiple facilities or where the facilities will be, that is a critical issue for us to determine in the coming days. Treatment centers are important to support. Treatment centers as you point out are very important to support. I was speaking with the american from sierra leone and speaking about simple things like giving them cell phones to talk to their family or things that they can do while there was very important. And if patients dont believe that they will be well treated in the Treatment Centers they wont come in and may continue to spread it in the communities. Good quality care is important. In terms of testing you are absolutely correct. As you know, mr. Chairman, with support from the c. D. C. Has represented crowiate the african sew tiety for laboratory and that has for the First Time Ever had high Quality Laboratories established all over africa. The countries have not been the focus countries so they have limited activities in the a area scalin
Or was discovered in 1976 and has killed 90 of its victims in some past outbreaks. Since march of this year, there have been more than 1700 cases of ebola, including more than 900 fatalities in guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria. This time, the average fertility rate in this outbreak is fromated at 55 , ranging 74 in guinea 242 in sierra leone. Ratessparity in mortality are partially linked to the capacity of governments to treat and contain the disease and Capita Health expending by effective governments. There is also concern giving given modern air travel and the latency time of the disease that the virus will jump borders and threat lies elsewhere in africa and even here in the United States. ,n my own state of new jersey and a hospital just a few hundred yards from my district office, precautions were taken. A person who had traveled from west africa Begin Manifesting symptoms including a high fever. He was put in isolation. Thankfully it was not ebola and the patient has