Interventions: How Actors Mediated Between and Honoured Humanitarian Action, Political Interests, and Medical Scientific Knowledge

Abstract

The Sierra Leone Ebola disease outbreak attracted the largest cohort of international actors/states with similar or different political ideologies; actors with a history of corporation and/or competition on issues of governance (including public health governance) in Africa since the Cold War era. These actors including the GoSL, the World Health Organisation, MSF, UNMEER, USA, UK, China, Cuba, and Aspen Medical of Australia, are identified, and their motivations to intervene, and their key intervention strategies are critically examined.