Sep 8 2014
News outlets reported on the newest development in government's commitment to help end the outbreak.
The Associated Press: White House Asks For $30M For CDC's Ebola Efforts
The White House on Friday sent Congress a request for $30 million to pay for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's efforts to help contain the Ebola outbreak in western Africa. The administration wants the money added to a spending bill to keep government agencies running until mid-December and comes on top of $58 million it requested above current levels to speed the production of promising drugs to fight the deadly disease (Taylor, 9/5).
Politico: White House Requests Ebola Funds
Currently CDC has an estimated 100 personnel in West Africa, including epidemiologists and intelligence officers tracking the disease. That number is expected to grow to at least 150 in the next few weeks. The additional money would also go to support staff who help coordinate the response effort across the CDC Emergency Operations Center, according to supporting budget documents. But all $30 million could be consumed in just the first three months of the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 (Rogers, 9/5).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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