The World Health Organization has announced it is pairing up with the United Nations World Food Programme to help get the current Ebola outbreak down to zero cases in West Africa.
The two organizations will combine their expertise and logistics in more than 60 designated priority districts in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to ensure healthcare workers deployed to West Africa have the resources and equipment they need to contact and treat Ebola patients.
Under the partnership, WHO and WFP will also develop new strategies to strengthen emergency response and operations.
Additionally, the WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, MD, has commissioned a panel of outside independent experts to assess the organization's response in the Ebola outbreak.
The panel — which will be chaired by Dame Barbara Stocking, the former chief executive of the aid and development charity Oxfam GB — will present its first progress report in May at the 68th World Health Assembly.
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