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U.S. Announces Additional $7 Million Donation In Fight Against Ebola In Congo (Huffington Post)

May 22, 2018

From the article:

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday announced that the U.S. is contributing an additional $7 million to fight the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following the U.S. Agency for International Development’s $1 million donation.

...Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the 2014 Ebola response for the Obama administration, said the increase was a “substantial contribution” that deserves credit. Konyndyk is now a senior policy fellow for the Washington-based Center for Global Development. 

“Strong up-front funding like this reflects the reality that it is far cheaper to contain disease outbreaks early via a proactive ― rather than reactive ― response operation,” Konyndyk told HuffPost.
 

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