The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro takes part in the extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 20, 2014. The summit slated for Monday was organized at requests by Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as part of a global fight against the epidemic. The ALBA, which was founded in 2004, groups together Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ecuador and Bolivia. (Xinhua/Miguel Guzman Ruiz/Prensa Latina)