PSC/PR/BR.(CDLXXI) Page 3 stressed that a comprehensive approach, which meets the broader security, development and governance challenges is also critical, as well as ownership, by the affected countries, of planning the recovery programmes. They also urged the speedy deployment, by AU Member States, of the pledged additional health workers to ASEOWA and to ensure that the deployments are made to areas where the demand is highest and where the personnel could contribute the most. Council and Participants stressed the need to ensure that these deployments are undertaken in close cooperation with the relevant government institutions of the countries mostly affected. Council and Participants stressed the need to urgently address the risks that the limited access to healthcare may have on women’s reproductive health and that of their newly born. They reiterated the need for particular attention to continue to be paid to the impact of the epidemic on the post-conflict reconstruction and socio-economic development efforts in the countries affected. They further reiterated the need for the convening, as soon as possible, of an international conference, in West Africa, on Ebola under the aegis of the AU with a view to mobilizing additional support towards the fight against the Ebola epidemic and long-term mitigation of its effects. Council agreed to remain seized of the matter.