Sh128tr available for research in 18 African states

Health ministers from 11 West African states agree a common strategy to fight an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 400 people.

Several states restrict foreign nationals, close schools and ban mass gatherings to halt the outbreak.

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A new fund is launched to boost science in Africa, amid concerns that research is too Western-focused.

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 East African countries must establish a joint health emergency plan to combat the threat of Ebola virus to the region, aviation officials have said. Members of the East African Community-Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (EAC-CASSOA) said there is a need to institute immediate measures to mitigate and prevent the spread of the virus and other communicable diseases into the region, saying Kenya, a member state, has

The African continent will continue to be dependent on Western powers even if its countries refused to sign Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with Europe, an international scholar has observed.

>Ebola shares the nasty distinction with HIV/Aids of not having a cure, or a vaccine.Ebola also kills you very much faster, and it doesn’t need anything more intimate than a handshake to infect.

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