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    Ebola, politics and ecology: beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative'

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre.
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    Ebola and extractive industry

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore geological beltway.
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    Urbanisation, the peri-urban growth and Zoonotic disease

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations. These interconnections fuel the spread of Ebola.
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    The pathology of inequality: gender and ebola in West Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, this parctice paper argues for the need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that enabled Ebola to move so rapidly across boundaries of people’s bodies, villages, towns and countries.
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    Local engagement in Ebola outbreaks and beyond in Sierra Leone

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are therefore vital. Unfortunately such approaches have not been widespread in West Africa where response strategies have been predominantly top-down.
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    A wake-up call – lessons from Ebola for the world’s health systems

    Save the Children Fund, 2015
    Ebola has taken a dreadful toll in the three West African countries hit by the current outbreak – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. It has led to the deaths of thousands of adults and children, in pain, distress and, because of the infectious nature of the disease, far from the comfort of their families.
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    Helpdesk report: Ebola - traditional healers, witch doctors, burial attendants

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015
    This helpdesk report focuses on the impact of traditional healers, witch doctors and burial attendants on ebola in West Africa. It uses available literature to look at the following questions:
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    Spotlight on gender equality publications

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Gender equality is a cross-cutting issue in Latin American where it is fundamental to ensuring the effective realisation of rights and to empowering women’s development in the public and private spheres.
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    Analysis of the President`s budget for 2013: making health spending inclusive

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The government in its effort to make growth inclusive has again arrived at a more balanced budget distribution between social and economic services in the 2013 national budget. Social services, especially the education sector, accounted for the significant increase in the outlay. But the country`s basic education budget still pales in comparison with those of its peers in the region.
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    Validation of hearing screening procedures in Ecuadorian schools

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    When not detected early in life, most children with permanent hearing loss lag behind their peers in language, social, and cognitive development; fail school more frequently; and do not acquire the skills to be successfully employed. In 2012, Ecuador launched a national initiative, Tamiz aje Auditivo Escolar, to identify and provide services to children with permanent hearing loss.

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