As health workers on the ground continued to struggle to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in September, the United Nations, international nongovernmental organizations and other donors appealed to the private sector for help.
And the need couldn’t have been greater.
“Nothing that has been done to date has put a slight dent in the speed of the [spread of] disease,” Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations at relief agency Samaritan’s Purse, said Sept. 26 during a conference call hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Center.