A cohost and producer is here and bringing your feedback and plenty to talk about and covering it all in africa. The International Community is jazzed about the summit taking place in washington d. C. And great hash tags trending and this is africa emerging and cell phone my screen and another is africa summit but however with everything lisa there is push back and president obama is not meeting the leaders and some countries were not invited. They are talking about the summit in the United States, their own continent not good idea and leaders in india not meeting. President obama is hosting the summit to discuss the pressing security, health and Development Issues facing the second largest continent in earth and turmoil in nigeria and Central African public and south sudan has a lot to talk about, the International Monetary funds projects 6. 1 Economic Growth in the region this year. Now the summit is not without controversy. As we mentioned African Leaders wont give one on one meetin
Opportunity to be vaccinated. I might say that the target of the vaccinations is clearly directed among others to the Health Care Workers. The people on the front line, the emergency responders, because those are the ones that put themselves at risk as did dr. Brantley in taking care of individuals. If you can prove that its safe but you dont know if its effective, you can try to prove its effective by inoculating Health Care Workers and others. Its better than nothing, but its not quite definitive. Fully knowing youre not going to get a definitive answer. Still, when youre in an emergent situation, you have to do the best with what you have. Further comments . Commensurate with the Clinical Trials is we have to have the product there, the vaccines to be made available. Part of that is taking these products that are in Early Development and making sure we can go to commercial scale and produce those in large quantities so these studies can be done and shown to be well tolerated that th
And again i apologize for the long period but people are interested in what is happening with ebola and you do bring a very unique perspective. You contract did ebola and alive and well today. So please proceed as you so desire. Mr. Chairman, chairman harkin and a steam to senators i am grateful for the opportunity to testify before you today about the unprecedented Ebola Outbreak booker in west africa that has already claimed thousands of lives that threatens to kill tens of thousands more are lost take the opportunity to thank each and every one of the ride no they people who help to play of will to break and be home when i was so sick. Thank you. On october 16 i moved to liberia with my family to serve as of medical missionary at the hess hospital and worked as a physician in to support the of Adequate Health care system and a country that is still struggling from a brutal civil war. We learned there were cases of ebola in the region began to prepare our staff and facilities to be r
A cohost and producer is here and bringing your feedback and plenty to talk about and covering it all in africa. The International Community is jazzed about the summit taking place in washington d. C. And great hash tags trending and this is africa emerging and cell phone my screen and another is africa summit but however with everything lisa there is push back and president obama is not meeting the leaders and some countries were not invited. They are talking about the summit in the United States, their own continent not good meeting. President obama is hosting the summit to discuss the pressing security, health and Development Issues facing the second largest continent in earth and turmoil in nigeria and Central African public and south sudan has a lot to talk about, the International Monetary funds projects 6. 1 Economic Growth in the region this year. Now the summit is not without controversy. As we mentioned African Leaders wont give one on one meetings with the president and a ha
His discovery of the worlds highest rate of Prostate Cancer in jamaica has been internationally recognized and published in numerous turtles and textbooks. He and his wife founded shield, which is dedicated to building a medical school in liberia, training doctors in various surgical specialties, and providing loan forgiveness for liberian doctors who have trained in the United States and would like to go back and treat patients in liberia. He has been involved in treating ebola in africa since the early 1990s. Mr. Isaacs, please proceed. Thank you. Chairman smith, esteemed members of the council, fellow guests of this committee. I am privileged to testify before you today on the ebola developments of the Ebola Outbreak in west africa and purse experience and response there. I will read this one page so i do not forget to say anything and then i will put the script away to say things that need to be said. Mertens purse has 30 years dedicated to humanitarian relief. We have worked in ov