Sierra Leone
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Healthcare workers from across the UK will join volunteers who flew to Sierra Leone in November
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Rachel Pugh: It started with his specialist accident team in Manchester. Now Tony Redmond is co-ordinating the NHS’s international response to the Ebola crisis
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Medical NGO MSF says response by foreign countries is ill-adapted to tackling the spread of Ebola in west Africa, warning the outbreak is far from over
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In his third update, Isaac Bayoh, a quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone, says trust has broken down between doctors and the people they are treating
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World Health Organisation says west African country’s capacity to combat epidemic is ‘strong and getting stronger’
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WHO targets on isolating patients and medical burials missed as NGO warns virus has reduced country to ‘a nation of mere beggars’
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Death toll from virus outbreak nears 7,000 as World Health Organisation warns figures may be significant underestimation
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Isaac Bayoh, a quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone, gives his second update on the devastating toll the Ebola outbreak has taken on local communities
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Medical team to work for private company in British-built facility and will be subject to 21 days in quarantine upon their return
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Letters: The Ebola outbreak is the greatest humanitarian threat Sierra Leone country has faced since its devastating civil war
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Open letter calls on international development secretary to increase response to outbreak to avoid ‘catastrophic loss of life’
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Healthcare workers, burial teams and others at high risk will be vaccinated in early 2015 if all results are positive
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A quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone describes, in his own words, the devastating toll the Ebola outbreak has taken on local communities
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UK’s refusal to allow former Liberian president jailed for war crimes to be interviewed raises public interest questions
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Health workers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, say they have not been paid their hazard allowance for seven weeks
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We meet some of the citizen journalists who have been reporting on the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the epidemic
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In the hardest hit counties, the role of community leaders is key in preventing the marginalisation of survivors of the virus, writes Harold Aidoo
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Security council opposes travel restrictions, like those imposed by Australia, on nationals of Guinea, Malia, Liberia and Sierra Leone
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Thirty of about 1,000 NHS volunteers, including GPs, nurses and psychiatrists, fly out after intensive training
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Residents cannot understand why beds are empty but Save the Children says phased opening is necessary to protect staff
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The 50 volunteers have undergone extensive training designed to ensure none of them return to the UK with the virus
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Dr Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, did not receive aggressive treatment until nearly two weeks after first showing symptoms
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Guardian world networks Sierra Leonean doctors to start clinical trial using blood of Ebola survivors
Convalescent serum therapy trial will test whether antibodies from plasma of 200 survivors can help infected fight disease -
Dr Martin Salia, a permanent US resident, was being treated in Nebraska after leaving Freetown on Friday by air ambulance
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We look back at key moments of the Ebola crisis in west Africa so far through readers’ eyes
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Doctors pledge to do ‘everything humanly possible’ to help Dr Martin Salia, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Saturday, to fight the disease
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Hospital spokesman says Dr Martin Salia, a permanent resident from Sierra Leone, may receive experimental therapy
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‘We’re averaging eight to 10 corpses a day, some of them dead on arrival; there’s a dead body every hour or two,’ he tells Lisa O’Carroll
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Fears about the virus have lead to Africans feeling stigmatised around the world – if this has been your experience we’d like to hear from you
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Nick Dearden: Instead of more tired stereotypes of poor Africans, celebrities could highlight the geo-political problems that allowed the disease to spread
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Fears that maternal death rates in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea could increase 20-fold as health facilities collapse
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Official figures show 111 new cases on Sunday, the highest daily rate since August, as UN warns numbers may be much higher
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From WakaWaka’s LED lamps destined for Ebola-hit areas, to Gucci’s iPhone app designed to encourage debate around female empowerment
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We asked you to show us how diaspora communities from Ebola-affected countries are responding to the crisis
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