Providing cures for health problems isn’t enough, if people’s personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. Policy-makers must recognize and engage with these objections.
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On 24 April 2014, a UNICEF outreach worker uses the opportunity to convince marketers that Ebola is in Liberia on a market day in Voinjama, Lofa County, where groups of people gather to sell their products,.
In April 2014 in Liberia, UNICEF workers share information on the symptoms of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and best practices to help prevent its spread in Lofa County, including posters bearing information on and illustrations of such practices. As of 27 July 2014, a total of 1,323 cases, including 729 deaths, had been attributed to EVD in the four West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Liberia has borne 329 of these cases (100 confirmed, 128 probable and 101 suspected), including 156 deaths.
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