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Improving health systems in three Ebola-hit African countries would have cost a third of relief effort there, says new Save the Children report
Up to 30 countries are vulnerable to an Ebola-style epidemic, unless the world sits up and helps get urgent investment into universal healthcare, a report (pdf) has found.
Improving the health systems in the three Ebola-hit African nations would have helped to prevent the epidemic and cost a third of the relief effort, says Save the Children in a new investigation of the epidemic that has claimed more than 9,500 lives.
It found that Ł2.8bn had been spent on aid, compared with the Ł1bn it would have cost to improve basic healthcare in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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