Reports from West Africa are not good. “[The Ebola contagion is] even worse than we’d feared,” Tom Frieden, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told multiple sources while on a fact-finding trip to West Africa this week.

According to The New York Times, the World Health Organization has not only declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to be an international health emergency but demanded an extraordinary response.

WiRED International’s Community Health Education (CHE) Center in Kisumu, western Kenya, attracts both medical students and members of underserved communities to programs that improve people’s health outcomes.