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Resetting the Ebola response in Congo means trusting the people affected

As suspected Ebola cases continue to go under-reported, people continue to present late at health facilities and treatment units, and those who are untreated continue to die at home, it is only through strengthening community-based surveillance and locally led response actions that the outbreak will be controlled.
Central and East Africa Hub
Melissa Leach, Juliet Bedford
4 Jun 2019
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Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo: The political economy of the disease

The history of Ebola in Bikoro has many versions, as histories do – each coloured by the voice in which they are told and the experience that person has had with the virus.  Few voices remain untouched by the virus; the tenor of the entire country is affected by the…
Central and East Africa Hub
8 Apr 2019
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‘Chanjo’? Ebola warnings puzzle communities in Goma

The availability of an experimental vaccine is seen as a game changer in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But some residents in the North Kivu province capital city of Goma, in particular women over 35 years old, aren’t so sure.
4 Apr 2019
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2018 review: Looking ahead to 2019

20th December 2018
The SSHAP was started in 2017 by UNICEF’s Communication for Development Section, in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and Anthrologica, and completed its second year in full operation this month.
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Obstacles to the Ebola vaccine trial in DR Congo

29th May 2018
As authorities in Congo embark on a campaign to use a pioneering Ebola vaccine, our network partner Dr Juliet Bedford from Anthrologica explains how a lack of infrastructure is likely to affect how and who receives it.