This guidance package compiles current facts and key messages about the Ebola outbreak in Liberia to inform activities designed to raise awareness, mobilize communities, and promote safe behaviors to stop the spread of Ebola in Liberia.

In Kenya, the bacterial infections that contribute most to human disease are often those in which re-­‐sistance is most evident. Examples are multidrug-­‐resistant enteric bacterial pathogens such as typhoid, ... diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli and invasive non-­‐typhi salmonella, penicillin-­‐resistant Streptococcus pneu-­‐moniae, vancomycin-­‐resistant enterococci, methicillin-­‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus and multidrug-­‐re-­‐sistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Resistance to medicines commonly used to treat malaria is of particu-­‐lar concern, as is the emerging resistance to anti-­‐HIV drugs. Often, more expensive medicines are required to treat these infections, and this becomes a major challenge in resource-­‐poor settings. more