European Union leaders agreed Friday to raise the bloc’s financial support to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa to 1 billion euros ($1.27 billion).
At a European Council summit in Brussels on Oct. 24, EU heads of government responded to an appeal by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who had called on them to double the funding.
“There is a massive crisis in West Africa, and we should feel a moral obligation to do something about it,” Cameron said at the summit. During a working dinner with fellow EU leaders, he announced that he would top up the U.K.'s contribution of 125 million pounds ($201.45 million) with an extra 80 million pounds.