Source: Guardian
Country: Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
While it is still too early to call time on the Ebola outbreak, a sense that the worst may have passed is tentatively taking root in west Africa, alongside an acute realisation of the need to ensure a positive long-term legacy for battered healthcare systems.
The international community might have taken too long to react initially but the arrival of hundreds of soldiers and volunteer health workers, backed up by millions of dollars from donors, stopped the crisis from becoming even worse. A dire forecast of a possible 10,000 cases a week, for example, was never realised.
