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• Ethical considerations for use of unregistered interventions for Ebola viral disease (EVD)
  12 August 2014 -- A panel of experts was convened by WHO to consider and assess the ethical implications for clinical decision-making of the potential use of unregistered interventions. They reached consensus that, in the circumstances of this outbreak, it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects, as potential treatment or prevention.
• WHO Statement on the Meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee Regarding the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
  8 August 2014 -- The first meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) regarding the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was held by teleconference on Wednesday, 6 August 2014.

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• WHO Director-General briefs Geneva UN missions on the Ebola outbreak
  12 August 2014
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  1 August 2014
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  20 July 2014

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