Ebola's footprint on health system strengthening

The Sustainable Development Goals have donors, implementers and civil society organizations looking to the future and asking: what’s possible, what’s measurable and what’s next?

But in the run-up to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, also known as COP21, and the release of the SDG indicators in March 2016, fewer stakeholders are using the SDGs as an opportunity to look back.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday Sierra Leone will be declared Ebola-free if no new cases are discovered by Nov. 7. The West African country had more than 14,000 diagnosed Ebola cases, the largest number of confirmed cases in the outbreak that has killed more than 11,000 people since Jan. 2014.

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