Talk:Responses to the West African Ebola virus epidemic/Archive 1

Reorganise

Hi guys, I think it would be a good idea to restructure as follows:

1. United Nations (UNMEER, WHO, WFP and so on)
2. National Governments (US, UK France ....)
3. Charities, etc

Does that sound OK? Robertpedley (talk) 07:00, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Gandydancer (talk) 07:20, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Number of MSF Ebola centers

The article currently says about MSF that : " Currently it has five treatment centers in the area with two in Guinea, two in Liberia and one in Sierra Leone." I am not sure it is a good idea to use the world "currently" as we would need to check constantly if it stays true. And actually, it is not. The current map provided by the MSF website mentions 6 ebola center : two in Guinea, two in Liberia and *TWO* in Sierra Leone. - source : french version of the official MSF website, map is hosted here : https://www.thinglink.com/scene/571984919106945026

> I suggest to change the way this was phrased and to amend the number of centers (I am a total newbie so I don't dare modifying the article myself...) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.219.144.50 (talk) 20:34, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I think that content was added a couple of months ago and MSF have moved a lot since then. I don't have enough time to update it at the moment, please have a go and I'll tidy it up if necessary. Good sumary here - http://www.msf.org/diseases/ebola Robertpedley (talk) 22:33, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The New York Times: Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information

Cohen, Noam (October 26, 2014). "Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information". The New York Times. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

Might be a useful source for use in this article. — Cirt (talk) 03:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rename article?

Thinking of renaming this page "Humanitarian responses to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa" as with Humanitarian response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake or Humanitarian aid during the Syrian Civil War. But it would mean cutting out some of the non-humanitarian content. Thoughts, anyone? Robertpedley (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great article, but...

I wonder if we should place a note in the article that suggests that some information may not be up to date and some sources that have donated may not be listed? Perhaps it could go as far as to say that many NGOs, etc., are working in the area, but due to the way we gather our information we are not aware of them all? Thoughts? Gandydancer (talk) 05:12, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ebola messaging, languages, and translations

Article should include info on public education/health communication on ebola. Since the region is multilingual, ebola messaging has been in various languages via various media. Since translation has been an important element in this part of response to ebola, mention should also be made of efforts such as those of Translators Without Borders.--A12n (talk) 13:27, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request

@Ozzie10aaaa:, good day! I read the rules and guidelines carefully. And I didn’t find valid reasons why my edit violates any rules. I discussed yesterday with a relative the coronavirus pandemic and how it’s very different from the spread of the Ebola virus. He has stories to tell, because he worked in Guinea at that time and participated in the construction of the Center for Epidemic and Microbiological Research and Treatment. Among others, he complained that he had read the Wikipedia article about those events, decided to add information, but the contribution was canceled. I volunteered to help him. To avoid biases in the presentation, I added information about all the companies who somehow responded to the Ebola virus epidemic. I will be very grateful if you find literally five minutes to check the proposed contribution. Alex --5.173.132.142 (talk) 20:21, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

would you be so kind as to place the text to be added here(on the talk page) first to discuss any specifics, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:56, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I expanded the subsection Individual contributors and renamed it into Companies and individual contributors. Text:

Companies and individual contributors

Response from ~~the~~ big business has played a ~~sagnificant~~ significant role when trying to stop the virus in Western Africa. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced a donation of $25 million to the CDC Foundation to fight the Ebola crisis.^[1] The ~~contamination~~ containment of the disease was ~~largely~~ partly due to the commitment of Oleg Deripaska, the founder of the second-largest aluminium producers RUSAL, that has been working in Guinea for almost 20 years. He mobilized all available resources to halt the spread of the virus and ~~used his personal connections to~~ assisted medical institutions and helped isolate the sick. He invested over $10 million in the construction of the clinical and diagnostic research centre of epidemiology and microbiology in Kindia~~, that it also fully equipped~~. Vaccine trials later took place at this center. This substantial investment in the construction of the center and the development of additional medical infrastructure had helped to stop the epidemic when the national’s healthcare system was not prepared for it.^[2]^[3]^[4] Saudi King Abdullah has donated $35 million to the Islamic Development Bank to support its Ebola fighting programme, funding equipment and treatment centres in four West African countries.^[5] On 14 August, the Nigerian government said Aliko Dangote had donated $1 million to halt the spread of the Ebola virus outbreak.^[6] On 29 October a South African businessman, Patrice Motsepe, donated $1 million on behalf of the Motsepe Foundation and African Rainbow Minerals to Guinea to help fight the disease.^[7]

A lot of international companies donated substantial amounts of money (over $50 million by May 2014) and medical equipment to help fight the Ebola disease. To name a few Google donated up to $17.5 million; IKEA Foundation pledged over $6 million dollars to Médecins Sans Frontières; Volvo Group donated $1,5 million to the United Nations Ebola Response Fund; Samsung provided 3,000 smartphones (approximately $1 million) to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Johnson & Johnson committed $1 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation and other NGOs; the Bridgestone Group pledged $1 million. Among the commercial organizations that sponsored WHO or offered donations to combat the Ebola virus, there also were FedEx ($620k); UPS ($500k); American Express ($200k); Xerox Foundation ($100k); Vale International Holdings ~~Gmbh~~ GmbH (100k); ~~Societe Des Mines De Fer De Guinee~~ Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée ($25k); ~~Societe Anglogold Ashanti De Guinee~~ Société Anglogold Ashanti de Guinée ($25k) and others.^[8]^[9]. In spring 2014 McKesson Account Manager Toby Capps donated 200 pallets of basic protection for under-equipped health centers in Sierra Leone, which were enough to meet needs for five months.^[10]^[11]