Ebola Target Audience

Target audience: Healthcare facilities, healthcare practitioners, healthcare professionals, central level and intermediate healthcare workers, and district level healthcare workers responsible for healthcare control matters.

Problem

As the Ebola pandemic continues to spread in West Africa, Pressure has been mounting on the US government to ban entry of travelers from countries where the Ebola epidemic has been growing exponentially. The US CDC (center for Disease Control) predicts the infection rates in Sierra Leone and Nigeria to rise to about two million by mid-January 2015. The virus has affected Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria all countries in West Africa. The detection and subsequent report of the first Ebola case in North

This could discourage the needed foreign healthcare workers from volunteering because with no military airlift planned, they need commercial flights to get home. Another reason closing borders is not appropriate is that it will destroy the economies of West Africa together with the limited health systems there. The World Bank estimates this epidemic could cost West African economies up to $33 billion. That's a lot for any country, and especially some of the world’s poorest (Guerrier & D'Ortenzio, 2014).

In addition, researchers have warned that quarantining oh people may result to serious effects such as political and social unrest. Unrest would result to fall off the government in respective countries that would in turn compound the existing problem. Quarantines would be translated by these countries as isolations that would lead to strained relationships between them (Evans, 2014).

If the U.S. imposes a strict ban on travel to or from those countries, infected people may still get into other countries, where they could start epidemics outside of West Africa. We would then need to ban travel to or from affected countries. And the epidemic could fan out further still, unaffected by the