The Ebola outbreak in West Africa will be over by August, the head of the UN Ebola mission has told the BBC.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed admitted the UN had made mistakes in handling the crisis early on, sometimes acting "arrogantly".
A year after the outbreak was officially declared, the virus has killed more than 10,000 people.
The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says a "global coalition of inaction" led to tragic consequences.
Looking back over the year, the charity suggests its early calls for help were ignored by local governments and the World Health Organization.
It was frustrating that we weren't heard and that has probably led to the scale of the epidemic we see today -
Henry Gray, Medecins Sans Frontieres
Most deaths occurred in the worst-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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