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

Population-level health initiatives, disease prevention, and health promotion.

Field of international medicine and policy concerned with health challenges that transcend national borders and require multilateral responses. Encompasses disease surveillance, pandemic preparedness, health systems strengthening, and the global governance of medicines, vaccines, and public health standards.

Government data recorded 8,067 confirmed Ebola cases and 3,901 deaths, making the outbreak the largest and deadliest in the country's history. Healthcare-worker shortages, insecurity, misinformation and attacks on medical personnel continue to obstruct containment.