Kenya to host regional conference on Ebola
 

Nairobi, Sep 15 (IANS) African governments are due to meet in Nairobi from Tuesday for a regional conference on Ebola virus disease preparedness, Kenya's health ministry said Monday. The Sep 16-17 regional conference will be attended by ministers in charge of transport, health, immigration and East Africa Community (EAC) affairs from Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan and Ethiopia. "The objective of the meeting is to craft a united, comprehensive and collective response to the Ebola outbreak that has so far affected a number of countries in West Africa," the ministry said in a statement. Officials from the health ministry said Kenya would also be offering its regionally advanced diag**stic services to further consolidate the Ebola preparedness effort, Xinhua reported.

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