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Here's where things stand. <a href="/web/20150905154150/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101925/Ebola-Where-are-we-now" class="bodylinks" style="font-weight:bold;">full report</a></p></div></td></tr></table> <div style="background-color: #f0f5f9; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0;"> <div class="fl" style="margin: 5px;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905154150im_/http://www.irinnews.org/images/2015/201508121506500264t.jpg"/></div> <div class="fl" style="width: 410px; padding: 5px;"> <a href="/web/20150905154150/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101854/Ebola-s-victims-of-the-future-pregnant-women"><h3> Ebola’s victims of the future: pregnant women</h3></a> FREETOWN/DAKAR, 12 August 2015 (IRIN) - Maternal mortality could increase by 74 percent in Sierra Leone, due to the deaths of health care workers during the ongoing Ebola outbreak. <a href="/web/20150905154150/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101854/Ebola-s-victims-of-the-future-pregnant-women"> full report</a> </div> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 5px 5px 5px 0;"> <div class="fl" style="margin: 5px;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905154150im_/http://www.irinnews.org/images/2014/201410301526150850t.jpg"/></div> <div class="fl" style="width: 410px; padding: 5px;"> <a href="/web/20150905154150/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101843/Post-Ebola-Syndrome-It-s-not-over-for-Ebola-survivors"><h3> Post-Ebola Syndrome: It's not over for Ebola survivors</h3></a> MONROVIA/DAKAR, 10 August 2015 (IRIN) - Ebola survivors thought they won the battle against the deadly virus when they left the treatment centre, but thousands are still suffering from long-term health complications. <a href="/web/20150905154150/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101843/Post-Ebola-Syndrome-It-s-not-over-for-Ebola-survivors"> full report</a> </div> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div style="background-color: #f0f5f9; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0;"> <div class="fl" style="margin: 5px;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905154150im_/http://www.irinnews.org/images/2015/201505011418460507t.jpg"/></div> <div class="fl" style="width: 410px; padding: 5px;"> <a href="/web/20150905154150/http://www.irinnews.org/Report/101812/Ebola-vaccine-reason-to-be-hopeful"><h3> Ebola vaccine: reason to be hopeful?</h3></a> DAKAR, 31 July 2015 (IRIN) - Researchers say an Ebola vaccine they were testing in Guinea is 100 percent effective. 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