The World Health Organization (WHO) today presented a roadmap aimed at coordinating international efforts to end the Ebola outbreak affecting West Africa, with three thousand 96 thousand 552 cases and Deaths .
The objective of the international organization is "controlling HIV transmission worldwide within six to nine months and give an appropriate response to the consequences of their international spread," according to a statement issued by WHO which also refers "the need to address, in parallel, the socioeconomic impact of this outbreak. "
The roadmap answers the urgent need to expand ostensibly the international response to this crisis, which experts say appears to have not yet reached its most critical moment, because 40 percent of the cases have occurred in recent weeks .
This program will update operational plans, prioritize treatment needs and facilities management, social mobilization and remove burials as one of the foci of the virus spreading.
WHO notes that this plan will be complemented by an operational platform for the UN to collect the capacities of other agencies, including areas of logistics and transport.
The platform should facilitate the provision of essential services such as food and other supplies, water and sanitation, and primary health care. The World Bank will monitor the funds provided to combat the outbreak.
It is estimated that the number of infected could reach 20 thousand and the number of actual cases may be currently up to four times higher than officially known.
To Sierra Leone last Tuesday was the most affected with 935 cases and 380 deaths, followed by Guinea with 482 cases and 287 deaths country; Liberia with 322 cases and 225 deaths, and Nigeria, with thirteen cases and five deaths.
Accurate WHO mortality rate is 52 percent, ranging from 42 percent of Sierra Leone to 66 percent of Guinea.
According to WHO, in the Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola outbreak is not related to West Africa was confirmed.
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