Rich countries must act swiftly to repair battered health systems and get cash to millions of families in the three countries hit hardest by the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, the international development agency Oxfam said Tuesday.
Though the economies of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia were recording strong growth prior to the outbreak, the countries remain some of the world’s poorest and incomes have shrunk dramatically since the first Ebola cases were confirmed in Guinea last March.
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Even as aid agencies look to the recovery effort, Doctors Without Borders warned this week that “critical gaps” in countries’ efforts to trace Ebola contacts could lead to new surges in cases.
