“Community health workers with expertise from past outbreaks have since had to find other jobs, said Dr. Daniel Bausch, visiting faculty at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a former medical officer at CDC.
“Now they’re driving a taxi in Kinshasa or selling fruit somewhere,” Bausch said. “So this cadre of reasonably trained people that you can employ just isn’t around.”
The International Rescue Committee, a former USAID grantee, said U.S. funding cuts last year forced it to downsize its presence in Ituri, the province where the outbreak is centered, including scaling back on surveillance efforts and sanitation measures such as handwashing stations, showers and latrines. Heather Reoch Kerr, IRC’s country director for Congo, said the lack of donor funding has reduced the group’s ability to distribute PPE kits.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/absence-usaid-likely-slowed-ebola-detection-response-former-officials-rcna345779
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