--- title: Ebola: Doctors Without Borders Says Cases Are Dropping description: The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it's seeing declines in new cases of Ebola in its centers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. canonical: https://time.com/3682680/doctors-without-borders-msf-ebola/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-26T18:59:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:52:47.725Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola: Doctors Without Borders Says Cases Are Dropping og:description: The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it's seeing declines in new cases of Ebola in its centers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. og:url: https://time.com/3682680/doctors-without-borders-msf-ebola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt156127a64e5c73d7/69877beda988ca8da26ac1b3/doctors-borders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4224 og:image:height: 2376 og:image:alt: SWITZERLAND-HEALTH-EBOLA-REDCROSS-AID-TRAINING og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola: Doctors Without Borders Says Cases Are Dropping twitter:description: The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it's seeing declines in new cases of Ebola in its centers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt156127a64e5c73d7/69877beda988ca8da26ac1b3/doctors-borders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Doctors Without Borders Sees Fewer New Ebola Cases > Sponsored content. 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Health workers of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and medical charity Doctors Without Borders take part in a pre-deployment training for staff heading to Ebola areas on Oct. 29, 2014 in Geneva.Fabrice Coffrini—AFP/Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jan 26, 2015 6:59 PM UTC The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it’s seeing declines in new cases of Ebola in its centers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. There are just over 50 patients currently in MSF’s Ebola treatment centers across the three countries, the organization announced on Monday. “This decline is an opportunity to focus efforts on addressing the serious weaknesses that remain in the response,” Brice de la Vingne, MSF director of operations said in a statement. “We are on the right track, but reaching zero cases will be difficult unless significant improvements are made in alerting new cases and tracing those who have been in contact with them.” There is still work to do on that score; in Guinea and Liberia only half of the new cases are people who are known contacts of people with Ebola. Since just a single case can spur an outbreak, more contact tracing is needed. **MORE:** [TIME Person of the Year: Ebola Fighters](http://time.com/poy) In Sierra Leone, incidences of Ebola have dropped to their lowest levels since August, though there are still hot zones like the country’s capital of Freetown. Guinea’s caseloads are also dropping, but more cases are coming from regions that were previously thought to be leveling out. Liberia has experienced some of the greatest drops out of all three countries. MSF says that on Jan. 17, there were no Ebola cases at the organization’s ELWA 3 Ebola management center in the capital city of Monrovia, and currently there are only two patients. 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