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Thursday 13 Nov 2014 - 11:29 Makkah mean time-20-1-1436  New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Ebola Dr. David Nabarro made a passionate appeal on Wednesday to combat stigmatization surrounding the Ebola by calling for a global social media campaign to “express solidarity and to show we are against discrimination.”
“It is really important that we all understand the roots of the stigma and work to address it,” Dr. Nabarro said, briefing to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at UN headquarters.
The Special Envoy said that even UN people travelling from affected countries have been stranded in airports for 24 hours and “treated as criminals.” He suggested that we engage with those who are reacting in extreme ways.
“Craig Spencer’s discharge was helpful in reducing that fear,” Dr. Nabarro said, referring to the New York doctor who was diagnosed with Ebola, and greeted with a hug by the New York City Mayor, after being released from hospital on Tuesday.
In his briefing, Dr. Nabarro said that 2 or 3 million of the world’s population were now “emotionally engaged” in the issue with hundreds of thousands working on the Ebola response.
While noting “some signs of progress,” he cautioned that they are “small signs”, and that “there is not enough certainty to say that we know the trajectory toward the end of the outbreak.”
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