Q&A with Rajiv ‘Raj’ Shah, USAID administrator dealing with Ebola in Liberia

WASHINGTON POST                                          Nov. 13, 2014
By Joel Achenbach
 Excerpt:

"We’re now dealing with an epidemic in a different phase, which is as many as 15 to 20 microepidemics around the country [Liberia] that require a more nimble and more rapid response. So we’re working with our partners to build rapid-response teams that can quickly get to a community, identify where there are clusters of cases, very rapidly stand up a community care center, or almost a mini-ETU [Ebola Treatment Unit], and have the protective equipment and connectivity back to laboratory diagnostics that allows for accelerated disease control of those epidemics."

 
USAID administrator Rajiv “Raj” Shah, second from right, inspects a newly built Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, on Oct. 14. (Abbas Dulleh/AP)

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