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ArticleInternational journal of MCH and AIDS2015

Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic: What Can the World Learn and Not Learn from West Africa?

Romuladus E Azuine, Sussan E Ekejiuba, Gopal K Singh, Magnus A Azuine

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Article in International journal of MCH and AIDS, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Viral Pandemics of the Last Four Decades: Pathophysiology, Health Impacts and Perspectives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Romuladus E AzuineCenter for Global Health and Health Policy, Global Health and Education Projects, Inc., Riverdale, Maryland 20738, USA.
Sussan E EkejiubaCenter for Global Health and Health Policy, Global Health and Education Projects, Inc., Riverdale, Maryland 20738, USA.
Gopal K SinghCenter for Global Health and Health Policy, Global Health and Education Projects, Inc., Riverdale, Maryland 20738, USA.
Magnus A AzuineTransWorld Development Initiatives, Inc., Brentwood, Maryland 20722, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With over 4,500 deaths and counting, and new cases identified in two developed countries that are struggling and faltering in their handling of the epidemic, the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic is unlike any of its kind ever encountered. The ability of some poor, resource-limited, developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa to efficiently handle the epidemic within their shores provides some lessons learned for the global health community. Among others, the 2014 EVD epidemic teaches us that it is time to put the "P" back in public and population health around the world. The global health community must support a sustainable strategy to mitigate Ebola virus and other epidemics both within and outside their shores, even after the cameras are gone. Ebola virus must not be called the disease of the poor and developing world.

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EbolaGlobal HealthGlobal Health EthicsHealthcare SystemsHealth DisparitiesNigeria

Identifiers

PMID27621980
PMCPMC4948166

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