{"id":70484,"date":"2014-10-10T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70484\/south-africa-to-assist-with-ebola-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T06:35:44","slug":"south-africa-to-assist-with-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/10\/south-africa-to-assist-with-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa to assist with Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, chief executives of JSE listed companies and other donors will, this Friday, October 10, immediately after the Ebola response fund meeting, convene a media briefing to unveil South Africa&#8217;s contribution to health and humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has set up an Ebola response fund to mobilise resources from the business community to assist in health and humanitarian efforts following the outbreak.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The government-led meeting will be attended by donors and the business community, including ambassadors from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia and will, will among other matters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0welcome back the South African team of experts from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) who returned from Sierra Leone;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0receive a first-hand report on the EVD outbreak in Sierra Leone;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0report on the current activities by the department of health for the health and humanitarian response to the EVD outbreak in West Africa;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0highlight and acknowledge all pledges by partners to date;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0establish the ministerial advisory team on Ebola;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0coordinate further pledges to the Ebola Response Fund, including personnel, support in kind and financial contributions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='08756cb715b0124bd2794b5149266d47'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa to unveil Ebola response fund to support health and humanitarian efforts in West Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,5098,5099,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-70484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-ebola-response-fund","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ebola outbreak","Ebola response fund","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}