--- title: WHO Needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola description: The World Health Organization needs at least $1 billion to keep the number of Ebola cases within the "tens of thousands." canonical: https://time.com/3387063/ebola-who/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-16T16:33:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:12:47.969Z article:section: Health og:title: WHO Needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola og:description: The World Health Organization needs at least $1 billion to keep the number of Ebola cases within the "tens of thousands." og:url: https://time.com/3387063/ebola-who/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a5ccf8550c82cce/6986a38b3bc999110b1a5510/455524954.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: SWITZERLAND-HEALTH-EBOLA-WAFRICA-UN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WHO Needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola twitter:description: The World Health Organization needs at least $1 billion to keep the number of Ebola cases within the "tens of thousands." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a5ccf8550c82cce/6986a38b3bc999110b1a5510/455524954.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The WHO Says It Needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola > Sponsored content. 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Thus far, there have been 4,985 cases of Ebola, while 2,461 have died of the disease. “The numbers can be kept in the tens of thousands,” WHO Assistant Director Bruce Aylward said during the conference. “But that is going to require a much faster escalation of the response if we are to beat the escalation of the virus.” And the figure could increase given the escalating nature of the outbreak. “The amount for which we requested was about $100 million a month ago and now it is $1 billion, so our ask has gone up 10 times in a month,” said Dr. David Nabarro, [senior U.N. coordinator for Ebola](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/ebola-response%5Fn%5F5828162.html). “Because of the way the outbreak is advancing, the level of surge we need to do is unprecedented, it is massive.” [The United States announced its own plans Tuesday](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/16/us-health-ebola-obama-idUSKBN0HB08S20140916) to send 3,000 troops to West Africa to help build treatment clinics and train health workers to fight the disease. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3387063/ebola-who/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3387063/ebola-who/"},"headline":"The WHO Says It Needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola","datePublished":"2014-09-16T16:33:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:12:47.969Z","description":"That's up from $100 million about a month ago","url":"https://time.com/3387063/ebola-who/","keywords":["ebola","Disease","health","WHO","World Health Organization"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a5ccf8550c82cce/6986a38b3bc999110b1a5510/455524954.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a5ccf8550c82cce/6986a38b3bc999110b1a5510/455524954.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SWITZERLAND-HEALTH-EBOLA-WAFRICA-UN","caption":"SWITZERLAND-HEALTH-EBOLA-WAFRICA-UN","creditText":"FABRICE COFFRINI—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3387063/ebola-who/","name":"The WHO Says It Needs $1 Billion to Fight Ebola"}}]}] ```