title: Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015: unresolved ethical issues.
abstract: Some ethical aspects of the management of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone which started in January 2014, have been questionable. First, as regards the prevention of the spread of the virus, the necessary epidemiological investigations on the origin of the infection were not carried out adequately and this did not help to curb the spread of the disease. A disparity has been observed between the western and African countries' access to the treatment of patients; this infringes on the principle of equality. This paper also focuses on how the Global Public Goods for Health principle was not fully respected in the management of the epidemic.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Virology, Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Via Portuense, 00149 Rome, Italy,. argarbuglia@iol.it.
authors.forename: Anna Rosa
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Garbuglia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D029043:Ebolavirus; D058872:Epidemics; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D004989:Ethics; D016701:Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D000069576:Health Equity; D006296:Health Services / Q000941:ethics*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D007988:Liberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics*; D015980:Public Health Practice; D011790:Quarantine; D012807:Sierra Leone / Q000453:epidemiology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000821:virology