Villar Visit Transcript

Villar Visit Transcript

Around that time--well, I guess this was September 2014, and President Obama had come to visit, so that was a huge undertaking in terms of the planning, and the logistics, and those kinds of things. But also a critical turning point because during that visit is when he announced the DoD deployments for the MMUs [Monrovia Medical Unit], these facilities getting established to take care of people in West Africa. That was I think a critical turning point in the response, at least from the US government side. And I think for the world, too, because other people were more willing to pony up if the US was involved in a larger way.