Came to take her way. Soon after her husband became symptomatic. The family again called the hotline for days but no one came. The father died and a few days later a burial team came and took away the body. The oakland noted the early signs of able among the children and set to the health care worker, your minister for health care is more for the dead down for the living. This isnt true, right . It happens to be a fact that in the early days of the epidemic the Senior Leadership at minister of health and social welfare and library worked with the companies in library to set up a phone bank of 24 land lines so the initiate of health could respond to phone calls related to the epidemic. But on friday i was having a conversation with a senior official and he said the problem in liberia right now is that the phones are ringing but nobody is answering the phones. Why not . Why is there this this juncture between people calling and people not answering the phone . This is a different story t
It was exciting so thank you to steve in particular for organizing that segment. F a forn what are the implications of what weve heard this morning and particularly what are the implications as we look ahead to what can be done . And so im really excited about group that we have here. And let me just briefly introduce the panelists going across from my left. First is superkemp. Susan kemp. She is the Deputy Director of the Oneil Institute at georgetown university. Susan is trained in law, Public Health and business and holds jd, mp h m ba degrees to prove it. She is, in 2001 she served as special consultant to the state Department Regarding reforms to the global fund to fight aids, tb and malaria. Supers also worked extensively on a wide range of health law issues including implementation of the International Health regulations, Pandemic Response and Infectious Disease control. And so we are looking forward to susan bringing a legal perspective here to the discussion. Next to susan wev
The World Health Organization has predicted that the ebola virus will infect 20,000 people in west afterwhat by november afterwhat by November Africa by november. The president of liberia spoke about whats being done to fight the disease in her country where an estimated 1500 people have died. She spoke by internet at a Georgetown University conference on ebola. After her remarks, a Panel Discussed the diseases Economic Impact in the african countries affected. Morning, everybody. [inaudible] director of the program here at georgetown and a longtime economic adviser to president sir i have sir leaf and others in the government of liberia, and i think we are ready to go. I know we have a connection. There we are. Good afternoon, madam president. Thank you very much for taking the time to be with us here this morning in georgetown. We have a crowd of a couple of hundred people here that are very appreciative of you taking the time to join us today. So, first, i just want to thank you for
A Health System is diffuse. What is the intervention . Nets, drugs, spraying. But in Health Systems, the intervention is diffuse. There are many possible courses of action. Think of credit claiming opportunities with a specific disease, there is a number of people treated or burden averted. But there it but it is hard to measure the functioning of a Health System in costs are easy to specify but for Health Systems, it is not. Induration, a particular program might end, but Health Systems never do. Donors are worried about these things. When it comes to advocacy, they look around the room and say, well, who else is engaged . Who is leading . Many nations pay some kind of lip service or make some. Nvestment in Health Systems but the answers to do much more of that. Ebola is a warning to us. It is a warning for a disease that is often fatal, that is relatively hard to trend. But as you can see, in crumbled states, in nonfunctioning Health Systems, it has gone viral. I mean it, in a litera
Injured. Scientists gather for the International Aids Conference. What theyre hoping to accomplish. Our sunday segment, the week ahead. Armstrong is on the move. Neil armstrong. 45 years ago, this day, man first walked on the moon. We remember apollo 11 and look forward to our next giant leap into space. Thanks for being with us. Were about to look life at the United Nations in new york. Tonight the Security Council is in an emergency meeting discussing the situation between israel and hamas. Neither side showed signs the conflict could come to a diplomatic end any time soon. There were major developments on the ground in gaza today. The military round of hamas claims it has captured an israeli soldier. Judges moments ago the israeli ambassador to the u. N. Denied those claims. Theres no kidnapped Israeli Soldiers and those rumorrors are untrue. Martin dennis, spoke and claimed the capture of the israeli soldier was true. When were talking about a capture of the israeli soldier we are