Treatments offer hope for Ebola breakthrough in 2015 An Ebola epidemic has raged in west Africa - principally in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - for almost a year, claiming the lives of more than 6500 people. In Sierra Leone, despite major public health efforts to contain the disease, it continues to spread. But with a number of treatments in development, medical professionals hope that the epidemic could be stopped in 2015. A voiced AFPTV report.