Reuters: Liberia names new health minister as it seeks to beat Ebola “Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has named new ministers for health and education as her government seeks to bring an end to the Ebola outbreak in the West African country and focus on reconstruction…” (Toweh, 4/8).

New York Times: Pattern of Safety Lapses Where Group Worked to Battle Ebola Outbreak “Partners in Health, a Boston-based charity dedicated to improving health care for people in poor countries, signed on to the Ebola fight last fall with high ambitions. … Now, a previously undisclosed inquiry by international health…

Huffington Post: Ebola: The Fight to Reach Zero and the Road to Recovery Lindsay Coates, executive vice president of InterAction “…With the impeding rainy season, it is imperative that partners continue to address Ebola outbreaks in remote areas while constructing strong health care systems to prevent future outbreaks. While the…

News outlets report on the signing of a memorandum between the U.S. and the African Union to create a disease control and prevention center in Africa. CIDRAP News: U.S., African agreement formalizes creation of African CDC “Top officials from the United States and the African Union (A.U.) today formalized a…

IntraHealth International’s “Vital”: As Ebola Resurges in Guinea, So Do Government Efforts to Quash It Kayode Odusote, chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Health Development, discusses his trip to Guinea “to help the Ministry of Health roll out mHero, a new communication platform that connects health workers to health officials,…

NPR: Disease Detection Gets A Boost With Plans For A CDC In Africa “…[A]s the worst Ebola outbreak in history winds down, African health officials announced Monday they will partner with the U.S. to establish a continent-wide African CDC…” (Burress, 4/14).

Agence France-Presse: Obama pledges U.S. aid in wiping out last traces of Ebola “President Barack Obama met on Wednesday with the leaders of three Ebola-stricken West African nations, vowing U.S. help in wiping out the last vestiges of the often deadly disease…” (4/15). Bloomberg News: Obama Hosts Heads of Ebola-Stricken…

CIDRAP News: Multilateral groups to address Ebola economic recovery “With leaders of West African leaders from Ebola-hit nations in Washington, D.C., this week for high-level talks on outbreak recovery, President Barack Obama [Wednesday] urged international partners to stay committed to the fight against the disease and to stand ready to…

Project Syndicate: Turning the Page on Ebola Alpha Condé, president of Guinea; Ernest Bai Koroma, president of Sierra Leone; and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia “…The impact of the epidemic has been devastating, calling into question our three countries’ significant socioeconomic progress in the aftermath of decades of conflict…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Presidents of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone To Share Ebola Recovery Plans at IMF — World Bank Group Spring Meetings Nasserie Carew, senior adviser in the Bureau of Public Affairs, discusses what to expect at a high-level roundtable meeting on Ebola with the presidents of…