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    Ebola's footprint on health system strengthening

    How will one of the deadliest disease outbreaks of the past century factor into the Sustainable Development Goals? Devex spoke to Marc DuBois, former executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières, about how the Ebola crisis should shape the world’s approach to disaster risk reduction and health system strengthening.

    By Molly Anders // 05 November 2015

    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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      Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

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