 Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you all for joining us here today for our third press conference of the World Economic Forum annual meeting here in Davos-Closters. Also, welcome to our audience watching on our webcast platform. Very delighted to learn a rather short notice yesterday that we were to have a press conference on the grave and severe crisis of Ebola. Very delighted that my two panelists find time in their diary today on this very busy day to join us. I'm going to introduce them in a second. To give a bit of context, there are over 20 sessions on Ebola on the private and public program here in Davos this week. David Nabarro has already spoken on two this morning. It's certainly an issue which has made me no longer as high on the news headlines, but it's seriously a very serious issue at the forum. I know we're looking at the issue and the problem in a variety of ways, how to better use technology, whether any governance gaps, how can the international community and multi-stakeholder communities come together to work more effectively to address this current challenge and to address future challenges of a similar ilk in the future. Now, without further ado, I will introduce my two colleagues, Baroness Amos, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, otherwise known as OCHA, and David Nabarro, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Food Security, Nutrition, and a Special Envoy on Ebola, again from the United Nations. Now, I'm going to ask Baroness Amos to start by giving us an update on the operations on the ground with regards to how the efforts to address Ebola are going. Thank you very much, and good afternoon, everyone. Ebola, of course, as we know, is an extremely serious disease with global significance. It's a major coordination challenge with a significant impact, particularly on three countries, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The world has come together in an extraordinary way to support those three countries, and we're very pleased that there are early signs of a reduction in Ebola in all three countries. And, of course, Mali has just been declared Ebola-free. It's important that we continue our work in three main areas. First, in the area of stop and treat, where we are focused on Ebola elimination. Secondly, on the maintenance of essential services in each of the countries. And, of course, this has put a huge strain on the maintenance of essential services in all three countries. And, of course, the work we're doing on the longer term. We've already seen the economic consequences of the Ebola outbreak, not just in terms of the three countries in West Africa, but many other countries on the African continent as well. We have to remain vigilant. And as the Secretary-General of the United Nations said yesterday, complacency would be our worst enemy. I'm going to hand over to Dr. Nabarro, who is going to update us on the overview of our requirements. And then we'll be very happy to take any of your questions or comments. Thank you. And thank you very much indeed, Valerie Amos, for the introduction, but also for the way in which you have brought the whole of the humanitarian apparatus of the UN system in behind the global response to Ebola. I'm going to offer a number of facts and figures. Then I'm going to talk about the revised overview of requirements. And then I'm going to hopefully be in a position to take any questions you might have. And just if anybody's watching this webcast, please do feel free to be in touch with us. My email is Nabarro at un.org. And I'd be very happy to try to deal with questions. I can't promise to deal with all, but I'll do my best. I started as the envoy on Ebola in August this year. And at the time that I took up my appointment, we were observing an outbreak where the numbers of new cases was increasing exponentially. That means that it's accelerating faster and faster week by week. In fact, it was doubling about every three weeks. It was a very scary situation indeed. Some of you may know that there were projections of perhaps as many as 1.4 million people affected by Ebola by the end of the year. It was also real anxiety about the number of weekly caseloads that there might be, numbers of people actually needing treatment. And I'm not surprised, because at that time, when I visited treatment centers, they were full. And people were turning up, and they were getting sick and sometimes actually dying at the door, because there was nowhere to treat them. It was a terrible situation, particularly in Monrovia in Liberia, but also in Sierra Leone and in Guinea. Well, this terrifying scenario has not materialized. The devastating spread of the disease has slowed. And the epidemic has started to turn. We're beginning to see an overall decline in the number of new cases each week. So Liberia has reported the sharpest decline. In September, there were 300 new cases of Ebola identified each week in Liberia. Now it's less than 10 cases per week today. In Guinea, the numbers declined from 114 last week to less than 30 in the following week. And then in Sierra Leone, we've seen a reduction last week of December, 330 cases, and 140 per week, on average, during January. Taken with the news that Valerier-Mostis described from Mali, we have a very attractive and promising situation that leads us to believe that perhaps we're beginning to see the end of the outbreak. Unfortunately, it's not quite as simple. And the reason for that is that if there is any case of Ebola in the region, that can restart an outbreak very quickly. Because this disease is devastating when it gets transmitted from person to person in body fluids. So we've been really focusing on a number of key activities. The first is to encourage communities to change the way they behave so they're less likely to spread the disease. And that's been happening. It's been happening in a widespread way. And it's probably the main reason why the declines have happened. But the next step, having constructed treatment centers, having made burials safer, is to turn ourselves into a community of detectives who travel far and wide in the affected countries, an area that's greater than that of the British Isles and only slightly smaller than France, and to go to every single nook and cranny and to try to find people who've got Ebola or who are suspected of having it and making sure they come under treatment quickly. It's really tough stuff. It requires epidemiologists, social mobilizers, public health specialists, contact tracers, hundreds and hundreds of them. And they're being put into the region by the UN system and by our partners, by the African Union and by Aqours all the time under the overall supervision of the national governments with the World Food Programme with UNICEF and others providing all the support needed. To sustain this effort, the United Nations system needs resources. In order to help us do this, we've revised our overview of requirements. And this document, which is released today, which is the overview of needs and requirements for the UN system for 2015, is now being made available to the world. We're asking for a further $1 billion worth of assistance during 2015 to be spread between the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, UN Development Programme, the International Organization of Migration, United Nations Population Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Action, and UN Women. The amounts required vary hugely with most being needed by the WHO, by UNICEF, and by the World Food Programme, particularly for their logistics operation. Some of these monies will go directly to the agencies. Some will go into the Secretary General's Trust Fund. All will be spent to support the activities of government and civil society in the affected countries and to permit preparations in those that surround. I'm ready if there's any questions about it. Otherwise, what I'd like to do is to suggest that you take the document, have a good look at it, and if you would like any further information, please let me know. Thank you very much, indeed. And can I end by thanking everyone who has been involved in this response? And I think, particularly, we have to thank the communities themselves. We have to thank the NGOs on the ground, the national and the international NGOs that have been operating, the governments themselves, the multilateral organizations, the African Union, the countries far and wide that have been extraordinary donors to our response efforts. Thank you. Thanks, both. Now, we do have time for questions. Is there anybody in the room in case to put their hand up? Sir, could you just remind us of your name, please, and your organisation? Yes, Frédéric Durand with NHK Japanese Public TV. If I'm not mistaken, you've already asked for $1.5 billion. So is it okay to understand that all together we have $2.5 million required for Ebola response? And what is the current status of funding, please? Thank you. So in September, we asked for nearly $1 billion. We readjusted the estimate in October to $1.5. And so the appeal was for around $1.5 billion. By the end of 2014, we had raised just around $1 billion of that $1.5 billion. Subsequently, we further increased our needs. The total needs is $1 billion and no more. And we now need, sorry, the total needs for resources is $1 billion now, and that's what we need to raise. So therefore, what we've done is to expand the envelope of need, but we've also taken account of the resources that have been received. And the document that I've given you, the one with the red cover, includes some assessment of progress that's been made to date, as well as a statement of need. And a more detailed assessment of progress is in the blue cover document, which is also available for you. Okay, gentleman in front row, please again. There's a microphone coming. Could you, for benefit of our audience online, could you remind us of your name and your outlet? I can't show you from the newspaper career. What kind of coordinated efforts are being done on developing this vaccine or for the cure? Thank you. The moment we have two candidate vaccines that are being tested and they are being given to humans as part of the trialing. There is some promise. It looks as though they may turn out to be working vaccines, but they won't come available even under best of assumptions until at least the middle of this year. In terms of treatments, there are clinical trials underway of a number of experimental therapies. One of the ones that seems to be most promising is an antiviral that is being tested in a number of locations. And it looks as though we may start to see some results in about two months' time. So in the background to this effort to do public health control of the virus, we have got vaccines potentially coming on stream and new treatments looking as though they may have promise. Thank you. Any more questions? Jill, please. And again, for our audience, remind us of your name and your organisation. Jill Truno from The Guardian. I apologise, I was a little late arriving. I just wonder how much longer do you think people will keep suffering? How far are you into solving this crisis? I described the response in two phases, Jill. The first was the effort earlier this year to try to reduce the phenomenal suffering, high levels of sickness and death, occurring because of an exponential increase in the spread of the disease. That has proved to be successful and the incidence levels are now declining sharply in Liberia and they're coming down also in Sierra Leone and Guinea. The next step of painstaking detective work to try to find every individual with suspected Ebola, to track and trace their contacts, to make sure they come under treatment and to try to understand why the infection is persisting is where we're into now. This is a tougher job. We can't put a time limit on it, but what we can do is say to you that there will be a massive effort involving African Union, ECOWAS in West Africa, the World Health Organisation and other parts of the UN system and partners to get communities mobilised and then to undertake this epidemiology and public health work in order to go to every last case. And as you can tell, I've not put... I waffled on and didn't put a time on it, but that's deliberate because I really don't think we can say when it's going to end. And can I add that, of course, resources are focused on that, but we're also very aware that we have to work with the countries to maintain essential services. We have to be planning now for the longer term because these are post-conflict countries that will require significant support going forward. And we're also conscious of the fact that we need to take the lessons learnt from this in terms of how we deal with any future pandemics. And there is a session on this here at Davos tomorrow. Thank you very much indeed. Well, mindful of time, I think we're going to call this press conference to a close. I'd just like to thank my panel for joining us and also yourselves and also our audience online. As I mentioned, there are a number of sessions on Ebola in the program during the coming four days, and I encourage you all to join as many as you can if you're interested in this subject. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you. Thank you.