Sierra Leone

New Yorkers ACT-UP against Ebola

New York -- Some 100 activists rallied here outside Bellevue Hospital in a protest organized by the AIDS Coalition to…

November 5, 2014

Ebola in U.S.: Struggle over quarantine, stigmatization

Oct. 27 — Epidemiology nurse Kaci Hickox had traveled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Doctors Without Borders to help…

October 31, 2014

Ebola cases surpass 10,000 in West Africa

World Health Organization officials announced on Oct. 24 that the number of Ebola virus disease cases now exceeds 10,000. Most…

October 31, 2014

Heroes of the Ebola crisis

It is clear that Ebola is the most dangerous emerging infectious disease since the HIV/AIDS crisis began in the 1980s.…

October 29, 2014

Ebola & failure of for-profit medical care

Oct. 13 — With the death of Thomas Eric Duncan in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Oct. 8,…

October 13, 2014

Statement on Ebola by healthcare group in Spain

The following is a press release from the Anti-Privatization of Healthcare Coordination, centered in Madrid, that was issued on Oct.…

October 9, 2014

Ebola crisis in Africa: Cuba sends health care workers, U.S. sends troops

Eight experts and journalists visiting the West African state of Guinea were found dead in Nzerekore on Sept. 20. They…

September 25, 2014

Ebola crisis: Rich countries must respond

In Liberia, where many people have been killed by the Ebola virus, nurses and physicians went on strike on Sept.…

September 9, 2014