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Section A: Overview
1. Purpose of the report
1.1 The purpose of this report is to update the Board on the latest
developments relevant to Gavi?s involvement in the development of an
Ebola vaccine , on the activities in the three Ebola affected countries as
well as on the discussions held in the past month at the Program me and
Policy Committee and at the R esearch & Development Ebola summit
organised by the W orld Health Organisation .
2. Recommendations
2.1 This report is for information only .
3. Executive summary
This paper provides an update on Gavi?s continued efforts to implement
previous Board decisions and on the adaptation of those efforts to the
evolution of the epidemic. New external developments are described
below whereas the approach taken to adapt to th ese developments is
outlined in points 3. 3-3.6 below.
3.1 Evolution of the epidemic : To date (May 17 th), there have been a total of
26 ,933 reported confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of E bola Virus
Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone with 11,120 reported
deaths (including over 500 deaths in health workers). Overall, the
geographic area of transmission is now primarily restricted to the coastal
areas of these countries. The outbreak i n Liberia was declared over on
May 9th. A recent substanti al resurgence in cases has been observed in
Guinea with total of 27 confirmed cases in the last week comp ared to 7 in
the previous one . Following a steep decline from December to late
January, the weekly case incidence now seems to have flattened out in
SUBJECT : EBOLA VACCINE AND MITIGATION PLAN
Report of: Seth Berkley, MD, Chief Executive Officer
Authored by: G. Vanden Bossche, Stefano Malvolti, Aurelia Nguyen, Alan
Brooks, Patience Masanhu , Magdi Ibrahim , Maryse Dugue
Agenda item: 14
Category: For Information
Strategic goal: Alliance operations
Report to the Board
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