UN OCHA – EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE OUTBREAK – Overview of needs and requirements
Compiled by OCHA in collaboration with WHO, UN partner agencies and other key responders.
September 2014 :: 34 pages
SCOPE OF THE OVERVIEW
The overview of requirements covers primarily Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries with intense transmission of the virus. The overview also provides information on countries with localized transmission of the virus, such as Senegal and Nigeria, or at risk of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) transmission.

Building upon the WHO Ebola Roadmap and the activities and plans of all UN entities responding to the ebola crisis, this overview describes the collective requirements needed to defeat the ebola outbreak and to mitigate the immediate and longer term social, economic, development and security consequences in affected countries and the region.

These needs go beyond the sizeable medical requirements needed to treat, contain, and prevent the ebola outbreak, and include needs and requirements related to non-ebola medical service (i.e. reproductive healthcare and malaria and tuberculosis (TB) treatment); food availability; clean water; livelihoods, and logistics concerns related to travel and transport of goods and services within and outside the ebola affected areas.

The overview covers a period of six months, in line with the analysis that it will take 6-9 months overcome the outbreak according to the WHO Ebola Roadmap. As the outbreak is rapidly evolving, the needs and requirements contained in this overview will be updated and disseminated accordingly.