Ebola -- DR Congo
28 Jun 2017 World Bank launches pandemic bond to tackle major disease outbreaks
[The World Bank has launched a "pandemic bond" to support an emergency financing facility intended to release money quickly to fight a major health crisis like the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
The catastrophe bond, which will pay out depending on the size of the outbreak, its growth rate and the number of countries affected, is the 1st of its kind for epidemics. It should mean money is disbursed much faster than
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2sDOPAg
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