Sierra Leone is to receive more than $80m (£52m) immediately
to help the country end the Ebola outbreak and recover from its effects.
The IMF has pledged a $187m financial aid package for Sierra
Leone to support the country's struggling economy.
World leaders are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to talk
about Ebola and long-term plans to fight the disease.
Nearly 10,000 people have died in the outbreak, the vast
majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
'Painstaking task'
On Monday the UN said that the struggle to contain the
epidemic was reaching a "second phase".
UN experts say the spread of the disease in West Africa has
dropped to almost 10% of what it was six months ago.
Liberia in particular continues to have a low level of
transmission, with only one new confirmed case in the week leading to 22
February. This compares to 34 in Guinea and 63 in Sierra Leone.
But the UN special envoy on Ebola, David Nabarro, told AP
that the international community should not become complacent as getting to zero
cases was "the hardest part
Around 600 delegates will meet on Tuesday to discuss the
response to the outbreak.
The BBC's Anne Soy, in Brussels, says that there is a danger
of donor fatigue, even though the Ebola outbreak has received a lot of
attention from the international community.
World leaders, including the presidents of all three
worst-hit nations, will talk about how best to rebuild their economies after
the epidemic.
The healthcare systems of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
will also need help to recover from the effects of the outbreak.
Scarce healthcare resources have had to be directed to
controlling the epidemic and it has become harder to get treatment for other
diseases.
The Ebola outbreak has killed 9,714 people in West Africa
since it began in 2014, with 23,913 confirmed cases.
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