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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Ebola positions

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Ebola positions

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David Nabarro of the United Kingdom as his Special Envoy for Ebola and Anthony Banbury as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).

These appointments follow the unanimous adoption of General Assembly resolution 69/1 on 19 September, and the adoption of Security Council resolution 2177 on the Ebola outbreak. They are made following close consultations with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization.

In his vital role as Special Envoy for Ebola, Dr. Nabarro will provide strategic and policy direction for a greatly enhanced international response and will galvanize essential support for affected communities and countries.

Under Mr. Banbury’s leadership, UNMEER, the new Mission, will provide the operational framework and unity of purpose to ensure the rapid, effective and coherent action necessary to stop the Ebola outbreak, to treat the infected, to ensure essential services, to preserve stability and to prevent the spread to countries currently unaffected.

Dr. Nabarro and Mr. Banbury will work closely in support of the governments in the region, and other partners, in pursuit of these critical objectives.

Dr. Nabarro has more than 30 years’ experience of public health, nutrition and development work at country, regional and global levels, and has held positions in non-governmental organizations, universities, national Governments and the United Nations system. He serves as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition and Coordinator of the SUN Movement. Dr. Nabarro’s other recent positions include Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza from 2005 to 2014 and coordinator of the UN’s High Level Task Force on Global Food Security from 2009 to 2014.  Last month he was appointed as Senior UN Coordinator for Ebola.

Mr. Banbury brings more than 25 years of experience in political, peacekeeping, and emergency management roles across several different regions and organizations. He has served as Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support since June 2009. He also served as Acting Deputy Special Representative in MINUSTAH after the 2010 earthquake, and was the Asia Regional Director for the World Food Progamme in Bangkok from 2003 to 2009, where he managed humanitarian relief and development operations in 14 countries. He also was an integral part of the relief operations for the 2004 tsunami and the 2008 Cyclone Nargis.

UN, New York, 23 September 2014

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  • BRITISH LABORATORY IN SIERRA LEONE
    U.S. ARMY PLEASE TEST CONTAMINATED MUDDY WATERS FOR EBOLAVIRUS
    WHILE YOU ARE HERE

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE AND HARD WORK. TO HELP PROTECT YOUR SELVES, CAN YOU HAVE RANDOM TESTS DONE ON THE MUDDY, CONTAMINATED WATER THAT RUNS THROUGH THE SLUM ALLEYS OF MONROVIA AND SIERRE LEONE FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE EBOLA VIRUS WHERE CHILDREN PLAY.

    THESE WATERS ARE CONTAMINATED FROM BODY FLUIDS AND WASTE FROM PEOPLE SICK FROM EBOLA. ONE DROP OF EBOLA BLOOD CAN CONTAIN TEN MILLION EBOLA VIRUSES. PEOPLE GET INFECTED FROM WEARING FLIP FLOPS, SANDALS OR BE BAREFEET AROUND MUDDY WATERS IN CONTAMINATE STREETS

    Viruses present in water[edit] Wikipedia
    Sewage contaminated water contains many viruses, over one hundred species are reported and can lead to diseases that affect human beings. For example hepatitis, gastroenteritis, meningitis, fever, rash, and conjunctivitis can all be spread through contaminated water. More viruses are being discovered in water because of new detection and characterization methods, although only some of these viruses are human pathogens.[4]

    PARENTS YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF MUDDY WATER IN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA UNTIL IT IS TESTED FOR THE EBOLA VIRUS.

    THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND VILLAGES, BOTH REMOTE AND URBAN STILL
    HAVE A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF CLOROX BLEACH AND BOTTLED WATER. Can you
    meet this urgency.

    R.E.T.H.A. REMOVING AND ERADICATING EBOLA THROUGH HOLISTIC APPLICATIONS
    THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE

    15th November 2014

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