Calls to provide more funding and support to curb spread of Ebola

As the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo, calls are growing for the international community to provide more funding and support.

That was a key message at a discussion titled "Building Africa's Pandemic Response: Whose Job Is It?" hosted by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa and Physicians for Human Rights.

Experts examined the rights, operational and political challenges of the outbreak. And what a more self-reliant and accountable pandemic response for Africa could look like.

SABC News reporter Bonolo Maribe filed this report.

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