Congolese authorities and AFC/M23 should cooperate directly on Ebola surveillance

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Wealthy countries should compensate poorer countries for recruiting their trained healthcare workers

Wealthy donor countries should bear a greater share of the cost of containing cross-border Ebola outbreaks

Kenya should require supervised quarantine for high-risk Ebola contacts

Kenya should keep its borders open while strengthening cross-border Ebola surveillance

Ebola containment should prioritise contact tracing over blanket travel bans

Countries facing Ebola transmission should temporarily restrict travel from affected areas

International Ebola funding should prioritise health-system capacity over border screening

Candidates' plans for pandemic transparency should carry greater weight than their governments' financial pledges

The international response to the DR Congo Ebola outbreak has been inadequate

Wealthier countries should increase funding for Congo's Ebola response

International Ebola funding should prioritise local treatment and surveillance capacity

Conflict lines are obstructing an effective response to Congo's Ebola outbreak

Protecting displaced people's trust is essential to controlling Congo's Ebola outbreak

International agencies should receive greater authority to trace Ebola contacts across conflict-affected areas of Congo

Military operations in Ebola-affected camps should require advance coordination with health authorities

Governments could pay people not to have children as a cheaper long-term alternative to welfare costs

The world population should be reduced by 30% over 50 years through targeted family-planning measures

The Ebola outbreak requires a coordinated regional response rather than a primarily Congolese operation

Conflict and institutional weakness pose a greater obstacle to Ebola containment than the absence of medical technology

Failure to protect and compensate healthcare workers is preventing effective containment of the Ebola outbreak