The Ebola endgame, and what comes after - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
▻http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(15)00032-8/fulltext
It can be argued that the weak health systems that were in place when the #Ebola outbreak started helped spread the epidemic because of their lack of capacity to detect and diagnose the disease or to manage severely ill patients. The strategic plan notes that government health expenditure was low and that “external funding was skewed towards #millennium_development goals with limited investments in core health systems functions”.
Management of endemic diseases such as malaria has suffered because of the focus on Ebola over the past year: a modelling paper by Patrick Walker and colleagues in this journal estimates an additional 10 900 #malaria-attributable deaths during the Ebola outbreak.
