Ebola Outbreak: IMF Debt Contributed To Crisis In West Africa, Report Claims

An international aid organization is partly to blame for the magnitude of this year's Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a report from researchers at three top British universities found. Researchers argued debt piled onto Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, which provides loans to countries with high poverty rates, kept the countries from investing in critical health programs that could have helped in fighting the virus.