We'll be running these regularly for the time being - the link to the most recent edition of the regular Ebola Digest. 

There's a huge amount of info in this excellent resource and we suggest you check out the source. In the meantime we've reproduced the country-specific section of their news digest below, in the hope it may be of particular interest and use to our readers. Today's article image is a collage of Time Magazine's Person of the Year covers - rightly acknowledging the work of those responding to the epidemic.

That link again: https://eboladigest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ebola-digest-wed-121014.html

REGIONAL SURVEILLANCE

Guinea

Ebola in Guinea: changing entire cultures in 12 months

UNICEF--Why is it taking so long? Why are people still resistant after months of explaining and explaining about Ebola prevention? The people of Guinea, fatigued international responders, tired doctors, and weary communities grow impatient as the outbreak drags into its twelfth month. My colleagues in UNICEF Guinea have been working 16-20 hour days, no weekends, traveling on impossible, impassable roads, trying new ideas, new methods, breaking down resistance one house at a time.

U.N Confirms Ebola Still Spreading in Guinea Forest  

U.N Confirms Ebola Still Spreading in Guinea Forest Ebola is still spreading quickly in western Sierra Leone and deep in Guinea's forested region, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. More foreign health workers are needed to combat the epidemic, especially in Sierra Leone where treatment centres are still ;...

Debt and hunger at birthplace of Ebola in Guinea

stripes--Meliandou is a village of about 400 people ? down from 600 last year, after dozens of young men abandoned it in the belief that the entire village was cursed, according to the village chief. The villiage is believed to be the birthplace and crucible of the most deadly incarnation to date of the Ebola virus.

Liberia   

Photographing Ebola: John Moore in Liberia

time--Getty Images photographer John Moore was covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia from the onset   

Liberia: Liberia Market Bulletin - December 2014

Since November 2014, FEWS NET has worked with Mobile Accord (GeoPoll) to conduct SMS-based trader surveys in Liberia and Sierra Leone to gather information on the status of market activities and operating costs in areas made inaccessible by the Ebola epidemic. Liberia and Sierra Leone are FEWS NET remote monitoring countries. In remote monitoring countries, analysts typically work from a nearby regional office, relying on a network of partners for information. As less data may be available, remote monitoring reports may have less detail than FEWS NET presence countries The SMS-based survey results serve to corroborate key informant and partner reports on market activities and serve as inputs to FEWS NET?s integrated food security analysis on the impacts of the Ebola outbreak.    

Determined to Progress - Liberia Hosts Meeting On Ebola Cross-Border

Determined to Progress - Liberia Hosts Meeting On Ebola Cross-Border Monrovia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Ebola will not derail the determination of affected African countries to make progress in developing their respective nations. According to an Executive Mansion release, the Liberian leader made the assertion ;...

Sierra Leone   

VIDEO: Ebola From the other side of the string

OXFAM--In Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ebola has forced thousands of families to be isolated into quarantine areas, often located in the poorest areas of the city.

Sierra Leone diamond zone hit by largely hidden Ebola outbreak

Reuters--Health officials in Sierra Leone fear a major Ebola outbreak may have gone largely unreported until now in a remote district where the World Health Organization (WHO) said scores of bodies piled up in a hospital. The WHO said on Wednesday that it had sent a response team to the diamond-rich Kono district following a worrying spike in reported Ebola cases in the district, which lies along the country's eastern border with Guinea.

Doctors Without Borders Distributes Anti-Malarial Drugs in Sierra Leone

MSF--As part of its ongoing emergency response to Ebola in West Africa, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has begun its largest-ever distribution of antimalarials in Sierra Leone, alongside the Ministry of Health, the medical humanitarian organization announced Wednesday. Teams distributed 1.5 million antimalarial treatments to residents of Freetown and five districts in the surrounding Western area over four days, with the aim of protecting people from malaria during the disease's peak season.

Ebola Rages on in Sierra Leone With Over 1,000 New Cases

time - Alexandra Sifferlin

The country has surpassed Liberia

Sierra Leone reacts swiftly in the face of desperate need

Racing to fact check an ominous spike in Ebola cases from the remote diamond district of Kono in eastern Sierra Leone, bordering Guinea, a World Health Organization rapid response team found a worse-than-expected scene. WHO and the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) joined forces with the Sierra Leone National Ebola Response Center (NERC) and Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) to sound the alarm and are now rallying all-comers in a massive build up to contain this burgeoning Ebola outbreak which ran the risk of continuing to grow and remaining hidden as world attention focuses on urban centers.       

Ebola Emergency Weekly Situation Report No. 07, 01 - 07 December 2014

As of 7 December, the cumulative number of confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone is estimated to have reached 7,897, with a total of 1,768 deaths. ? The Western Area and Port Loko remain Locations of high transmission. New hotspots are emerging in remote areas including parts of Kambia and the Tambaka chiefdom in Bombali. ? As of 3 December, 9,524 children have been identified as being directly affected by the Ebola Crisis, including 4,349 children having lost one or both parents to EVD. ? WFP continues to deliver weekly over 730 metric tonnes of food, reaching some 65,000 patients, quarantined homes, and survivors.    

Ebola Outbreak 2014: Doctors In Sierra Leone Go On A Strike Over Inadequate

Doctors In Sierra Leone Go On A Strike Over Inadequate ... A strike at Connaught Hospital in Sierra Leone where British Ebola survivor Will Pooley is based follows when three of their doctors contracted of the disease in two days. The recent record shows that Sierra Leone has beaten Liberia as the country where the ;...

1.5 million people in a country affected by Ebola receive drugs to prevent malaria

star africa--As part of its ongoing emergency response to Ebola in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has carried out the largest-ever distribution of antimalarials in Sierra Leone, alongside the Ministry of Health. Teams distributed 1.5 million antimalarial treatments to residents of Freetown and [...]   

Ebola Continues to Spread in Sierra Leone

The Ebola virus continues to ravage Sierra Leone despite ongoing efforts by the government and international community to contain it. The country?s president has made the virus a top priority on his agenda, scaling down other projects that were to be implemented. He has also committed over twenty- million US dollars to fight the disease.  The international humanitarian organization ActionAid says it has been on the ground training volunteers to spread awareness of the disease and how to stop it from spreading. ActionAid country director in Sierra Leone, Mohamed Silah says the Ebola crisis persists with the highest count of new cases reported to date in November. ?It was over 1,400 in just the month of November, and that was the highest in just a single month. Every day the numbers are increasing. There is no positive trend to see the numbers are decreasing, explained Silah.     

Healthy boy sent to Ebola quarantine center

Healthy boy sent to Ebola quarantine center (NPR) As part of Sierra Leone's broader effort to contain the deadly Ebola virus, the country opened a new ambulance dispatch center in September in the capital, Freetown. Along with a new Ebola hotline, the center is considered an important step forward ;...

S/Leone: Kono District announces two-week Ebola lockdown

The local authorities in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich Kono District have announced a two-week lockdown to stem the spread of the Ebola virus disease.The lockdown was sanctioned by the Paramount Chief and it is due to commence on Wednesday. Kono is the only one of three districts in the eastern region that currently has Ebola cases. [...]