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This chapter discusses the path to recovery. Predicated mainly on the policy directives for recovery proposed by the GoSL, the analysis looked at the political appraisals of the economic/financial and political costing for recovery, and the role that the international community can play in the enablement of the GoSL to achieve their 2010–2020 public health sector targets for Sierra Leone.
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See the 2015 press release of the World Bank: ‘Ebola: World Bank Group Provides new financing to help Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone recover from Ebola Emergency’ (April), http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/04/17/ebola-world-bank-group-provides-new-financing-to-help-guinea-liberia-sierra-leone-recover-from-ebola-emergency.
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Lahai, J.I. (2017). The Aftermath: The Proposed Pathway to Public Health Recovery: 2015–2020. In: The Ebola Pandemic in Sierra Leone. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45904-2_5
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