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  1. “To conclude, I also wish to say that Guinea is a wonderful country, with genuine positives, and that Guineans are charming and welcoming. Despite Ebola, life there goes on and must go on. The indirect impact of the epidemic remains to be tallied, but we already know that health services have been significantly affected, that food security could become a real concern, and that the overall pace of development has slowed. As humanitarian actors, our primary objective is to help contain the epidemic, not only for reasons of health, but also so that the pace of development will resume. I thank the Council for its attention and I hope it will contribute to the overall consideration of the Security Council.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  2. “In this tense and uncertain situation, we can still find a few "happy" endings: the cured patient who leads community outreach meetings; the nursery that welcomes the children of patients and strives to support them; and the joy that overcomes our teams when a community is opened to response and a transmission chain is broken. Those small victories belong to the workers on the ground and are are often due to solidarity among the people in the field, whatever their institutional affiliation: Red Cross, international non-governmental organizations or United Nations agencies. The World Food Programme, which is shouldering tasks in Guinea that are not traditionally part of its mandate, has been most helpful with its construction of care centres and air transportation of people and freight.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  3. “The global media coverage and some decisions on managing the return of personnel exposed in the field can affect the recruiting of international talent. States' commitments to ensure safe medical evacuation is essential to providing the best guarantees to all participants, without regard to nationality. Finally, let us not forget our Guinean colleagues, who in case of contamination must also be able to receive optimal care and psychosocial support. The other great challenge is the logistics of supplying essential products to areas that may be very remote. The production, purchase and transport of those critical materials are undertaken along a precarious chain of supply, and any disruption of the process could cause a slowdown or even a halt in these activities.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  4. “To succeed, we must move beyond traditional awareness-raising messages and win the confidence and the ear ofthe people where they live. We cannot defeat Ebola without the participation and contributions of the affected populations. As a national member of the International Federation ofRed Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and as our colleagues in non-governmental organizations on the front line of the Ebola crisis have noted, the implementation of our work is a new challenge. The Council recognizes the difficulties we face in mobilizing competent human resources that are ready to deploy in the field to face a complex epidemic. Aside from the medical personnel, we need water and sanitation specialists, field coordinators, administrators, logisticians and many other talents.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  5. “The task of the Guinean workers, whether from the Guinean Red Cross, the military or civilian society, continues to be undermined by the people's mistrust. As such, awareness-raising remains essential to an effective reference base. That work must be carried out daily. During the morning coordination meeting in Macenta, new outbreaks are identified. Outreach teams leave to open the doors of the communities to volunteers from the Guinean Red Cross, who are responsible for monitoring case contacts. Sometimes we fail, faced with overwhelming cultural resistance and the terrible feeling that the struggle will never end. If we do not gain access to the community, the transmission paths will not be stopped in time. The epidemic moves from here, to there, depending on the movements of the people who have been in this border region.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  6. “They fetch the sick and bring the bodies back in body bags. It is a terrible task that the volunteers of the Guinean Red Cross carry out with determination. Their commitment will lead to breaking the chains of transmission and recurrence both today and tomorrow. Again I would highlight to the Council my admiration for those volunteers who have been daily stigmatized by their families and neighbours. In Macenta, some have been made to move regularly, some have been abandoned by their spouses and children, without a word, and some have lost their loved ones. Today, our role and that of the international community remains, above all, to assist those who help - those whose translate national and global strategies in each community and outbreak area of the epidemic, down to the affected households.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  7. “Coordination ofthose factors around the areas of outbreak will one day make it possible to contain the epidemic. On the ground, daily coordination meetings, hosted by the prefect coordination unit in the fight against Ebola, play a fundamental role in ensuring such efforts, especially related synergies. Among the essential non-medical activities in this fight, we must highlight those carried out, courageously, since the start of the epidemic by the volunteers of the Guinean Red Cross: transporting the ill, disinfection and ensuring safe burials. Since March they have responded to warnings about suspected cases and deaths in communities. They are the ones who have been exposed both ethically and physically. They risk exposure to the epidemic by working in the most affected communities and dealing with people who are suffering.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  8. “We therefore welcome the commitments made by Governments, the United Nations and humanitarian actors. Despite that, Ebola is always one step ahead. The epidemic is ahead of us, forcing us to react in view of the humanitarian imperative, without the ability to anticipate or to limit its development. Strengthened international mobilization efforts are necessary to generate concrete action to respond to the needs on the ground. Moreover, diverse efforts are needed to ensure the proper implementation of all required elements in this struggle. The action of the Red Cross is based on the five pillars of its response strategy: medical care; funerals carried out safely and with dignity, and disinfection; awareness-raising and communication; the monitoring of contacts; and psychosocial support for people and staffon the ground.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  9. “Our teams are overcoming the challenges one by one in order to increase our capacity as quickly as possible, but they are not able to address the totality of the needs. Establishing access channels to essential provisions and mobilizing Guinean and international medical and non-medical personnel are essential conditions in strengthening our response capacity as soon as possible. Biosecurity for the operation's staff is also a central part of the intervention. The epidemic in Guinea is not yet under control. In recent weeks, there has been an upsurge of cases in the infection zones, new cases in new provinces and re-emergence in areas once considered cured. The effects of the international mobilization efforts have started to materialize on the ground.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  10. “Although the unit was built in record time, it became operational due to the remarkable mobilization efforts undertaken by Doctors Without Borders in Macenta, in the Guinea forest region, and the commitments from all levels of the French and Guinean authorities. The region is the original epicentre of the Ebola epidemic, where it has now been raging for nine months without stop. The epidemic has affected all sectors of the population without distinction. In Macenta, those who are ill are referred to the centre or arrive on their own to receive medical care. Given the high hopes of the response community in the Macenta centre, it has provided an additional asset in the form of hope for survival for those who are ill. Nevertheless, the centre alone will not be able to curb this formidable epidemic. Ebola is raging in Macenta as we speak.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source

  11. “At the outset, I want to commend the Council's devoted attention to the reality on the ground, as evidenced by having given me the floor. The French Red Cross has been involved alongside the Guinean Red Cross since April in combating the Ebola crisis through community-based activities. I now have the heavy responsibility of sharing our daily struggle with Ebola and the difficult reality, as well as the hope that coordinated global action will, as swiftly as possible, contain the epidemic. On 18 November, the French Red Cross welcomed the first patients in the first Ebola treatment unit.”

    2014-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7318 (2014) · source