Ebola Update - Noon Briefing (11 March 2015)

United Nations - Ebola Update by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
EBOLA
On Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are combining their forces in a new partnership in the Ebola-impacted countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
This arrangement combines the logistics strength of WFP with WHO’s public health expertise to help get the current Ebola outbreak down to zero cases in West Africa.
Today, more than 700 people are deployed in the Ebola affected countries, which is more WHO employees than at any other point in the epidemic.
In districts with ongoing Ebola transmission, WFP is ensuring that WHO disease detectives have the resources they need — computer equipment, phones and stable internet connectivity — to share information critical to tracking and stopping the virus.
The World Food Programme is also managing the fleet of rugged vehicles carrying social anthropologists and epidemiologists to isolated villages.
This joint partnership responds to the directive of WHO's Executive Board Special Session on Ebola, to develop new ways to strengthen health emergencies.