Cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome, a form of paralysis, have also recently been reported in adults and it is believed that there may be a link with the virus.

10. Stresses that clear and unambiguous responses are needed that acknowledge the role of women as key actors in protecting their families and communities and in breaking EVD transmission chains; stresses the need to stimulate recovery, including measures to: engage women’s organisations in schemes to provide information on the importance of health-care, such as sessions that address EVD-related precautions for women and girls; train EVD-survivors as nurses, cleaners and laundry workers; and ensure equal protection of all hospital staff; stresses as well the importance of providing men and women with detailed information about sexual ...[+++] and reproductive health, in particular the risks associated with sexual intercourse after recovery;

As regards maternal health and everything you have said, I can only share the commitment and indignation of those who have spoken, particularly as regards the links with the HIV virus, and say that the EU is going to finance the Global Fund to fight AIDS to the tune of EUR 91 million in 2007, as the leading donor to this fund for that year.

With TB we need to recognise the link to AIDS – the multi-drug resistance versions which kill two million a year.

– (IT) The scenario that has been illustrated here is not just the result of a natural disaster but represents a tragic synthesis between an aggressive virus and the unbridled drive for profit by single-minded, powerful organisations like the multinational pharmaceutical companies.

The link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one example of this. That between SARS and the use of acutely ill animals for food in China is another.