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  1. 1. Anatomy of corruption in humanitarian assistance: a retrospective analysis of emergency response operations of the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia (2014 – 2016)

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Elisha Lawodo Bloe; [2023]
    Nyckelord :emergency response and recovery; humanitarian assistance; corruption; Ebola virus disease;

    Sammanfattning : This study critically explores the pervasive issue of corruption in humanitarian assistance, focusing on the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia from 2014-2016. For a country grappling with broken infrastructure and fragile healthcare systems due to a 14-year-long civil war, the Ebola crisis in Liberia was an unprecedented disaster as evidenced by 10,672 recorded cases and 4,808 reported fatalities between 2014 and 2016. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Covid-19 i Afrika: Beredskap efter ebola

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper

    Författare :Jöran Lindström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Africa; Ebola; COVID-19; Preparedness; Afrika; Ebola; Covid-19; Beredskap;

    Sammanfattning : Introduktion Afrika har haft flera utbrott av ebola (EVD). Det Västafrikanska EVD-utbrottet 2014-2016 var det mestförödande med mer än 28 000 fall och mer än 11 000 dödsfall. Utbrottet började i Guinea och spredsöver gränsen till Sierra Leone och Liberia. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A study on the influence of CSR on Nordic stock performance during Covid-19

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Författare :Arash Dabiri; Lisa Blenwall; [2021]
    Nyckelord :COVID-19; Exogenous shock; CSR; Stock performance; Trust;

    Sammanfattning : The majority of prior studies have found that firms with a high CSR rating have enjoyed higher returns on their stocks than comparable firms with lower CSR during financial crises, generally defined as having low societal trust levels. This effect is more prevalent in high trust societies such as the Nordics. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Skapade vi "dödssmittan"? : En kritisk diskursanalys av den svenska nyhetsrapporteringen vid utbrottet av ebola och covid-19

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Författare :Anna Österberg; Olivia Smeds; [2020]
    Nyckelord :covid-19; ebola; racialization; political ecology; discourse analysis  ;

    Sammanfattning : The outbreak of ebola 2014 and the outbreak of covid-19 2019 affected our societies in a lot of ways, and some of the consequences were more unexpected than others. One of these consequences is the appearance of stigmatization and racism against ethnic groups. LÄS MER

  7. 5. 'A Perfect Storm' A case study of how the Ebola response played into conflict dynamics in Sierra Leone

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Cathrine Barklin; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Civil War; Ebola Outbreak; Humanitarian Response; Protracted Social Conflict; Sierra Leone;

    Sammanfattning : Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa was struck by the largest ever Ebola epidemic. In Sierra Leone, the outbreak occurred only about a decade after the end of an eleven-year long civil war, which left the country with little capacity to contain the virus. LÄS MER