BY PENNINAH IUTUNG AMOR –
“How many lives must be lost to Ebola before the AU cuts through the bureaucratic red tape that is strangling the life out of our people, asks the AHF.”
Dear Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma,
On September 8, preceding the African Union (AU) special commission’s meeting on Ebola, the Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) made a submission to the AU. In it, we proposed five specific interventions for immediate action to avert the humanitarian disaster unfolding in West Africa because of the poorly monitored spread of the Ebola virus.
On September 15, the AU released a statement outlining 11 actions to meet the challenges posed by Ebola.
Six weeks and more than a thousand deaths later, the AU’s commitments ring hollow. Former colonial powers have committed resources, both financial and human, and, as we speak, British and American forces are on the ground in Sierra Leone and Liberia working to stem the tide of this disease.
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