International donations to the Ebola virus outbreak: too little, too late?

Grépin, Karen A

doi:10.1136/bmj.h376

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“…International donor organizations and governments, in combination with local community-based organizations, were instrumental to curtailing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, without which more deaths directly attributable to Ebola, as well as further indirect devastation, would have occurred ( 39 ). Although public health officials rightfully focused efforts on curbing the Ebola outbreak, the long-term weakening of health systems related to the Ebola outbreak will require extensive investment directed at strengthening diffuse health systems for a plethora of diseases ( 40 ).…”

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Effects of Response to 2014–2015 Ebola Outbreak on Deaths from Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis, West Africa

Parpia¹,

Ndeffo-Mbah²,

Wenzel³

et al. 2016

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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Effects of Response to 2014–2015 Ebola Outbreak on Deaths from Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis, West Africa

Parpia¹,

Ndeffo-Mbah²,

Wenzel³

et al. 2016

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

277

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“…16,28 Second, the operational response commenced slowly, taking months for funding, personnel, and other resources to reach the region. [28][29][30] Third, the creation of the UN Mission for Emergency Ebola Response bypassed the pre-existing UN body for emergency coordination, the Offi ce for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aff airs, further blurring the lines of responsibility for international coordination. Fourth, fi eld staff often reinvented strategies for community mobilisation and contact tracing because relevant lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo were not eff ectively transferred.…”

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Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

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“…The aim was to shift pandemic emergency response away from donor country fundingwhich is considered unreliable (e.g. Grépin, 2015).…”

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Faking global health

Erikson

2019

Critical Public Health

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Globally, human health is improving. Aggregate world health data indicate enormous improvement over the last 100 years. Life expectancy, vaccination, and sanitation rates are higher. Rates of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, child and maternal mortality are lower. These gains have all been accomplished during a time when governments orchestrated, or aspired to provide, albeit often imperfectly, the systemizations of health care. Now austerity and privatization campaigns shape health services worldwide, and we witness a massive ideological shift in approaches to the world's wickedest health problems: Public health endeavors must 'show return on investment.' This commentary takes up activities in three health domains where effort goes into the appearance of global health prowess and accomplishment: health security; health innovation; and health finance. Pseudo global health, as an analytic, helps us take measure of the in-between phenomenon between real and fake accomplishment, success and failure, improved health outcomes and continued suffering. I show: 1) how global health security documents sometimes serve as 'alibis'that is, contrivances offered to intimate local readiness or safety despite their actual absence; 2) how global health innovation influencers often privilege tech-fixes developed far removed from realtime people, places, and practices; and 3) how global health finance has already evolved in ways that makes suffering profitable. The examples are meant to enlighten rather than depress and are offered with the hope that critical analyses using the pseudo health concept as an analytic prompt new strategies for sustainable changes rather than merely their appearance.

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International donations to the Ebola virus outbreak: too little, too late?

Cited by 30 publications

References 5 publications

Effects of Response to 2014–2015 Ebola Outbreak on Deaths from Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis, West Africa

Effects of Response to 2014–2015 Ebola Outbreak on Deaths from Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis, West Africa

Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

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