{"id":235515,"date":"2026-06-06T16:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nphil-defends-u-s-4-2-million-ebola-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:59:41","slug":"liberia-nphil-defends-u-s-4-2-million-ebola-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nphil-defends-u-s-4-2-million-ebola-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: NPHIL Defends U.S.$4.2 Million Ebola Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8211; The Interim Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), Dr. Sia Wata Camanor, is defending the government&#8217;s proposed $4.2 million Ebola preparedness budget amid mounting public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Dr. Camanor maintains that investing in prevention is far less costly than grappling with the devastation of a full-scale outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Her defense comes after Health Minister Dr. Louise Kpoto informed the Liberian Senate in late May that $4.2 million had been earmarked to strengthen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; The Interim Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), Dr. Sia Wata Camanor, is defending the government&#8217;s proposed $4.2 million Ebola preparedness budget amid mounting public scrutiny. Dr. Camanor maintains that investing in prevention is far less costly than grappling with the devastation of a full-scale outbreak. Her defense comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7820,1111,4712,1107,5118,257,22409,7586,254,54550],"class_list":["post-235515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defends","tag-ebola","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nphil","tag-plan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-4-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}