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UNICEF/UNI166988/Jallanzo
Evidence Reviews

Ebola – Traditional Healers, Witch Doctors, Burial Attendants

This helpdesk focuses on the impact of traditional healers, witch doctors and burial attendants on ebola in West Africa. It seeks to establish if there is a difference between witch...
HEART
2015
UNICEF/Jallanzo
Evidence Reviews

Ebola Regional Lesson Learning

The Ebola outbreak currently affecting West Africa is the most serious trans-national medical emergency in modern times. It has the potential to become a global health crisis. Many of the...
HEART
2014
UNICEF/UNI167518/Jallanzo
Briefings

Ebola in West Africa Guinea: Resistance to the Ebola Response

Resistance to the Ebola response has been more widespread and more severe in Guinea, than in Liberia and Sierra Leone, with sometimes violent incidents. This is due to a complex...
ACAPS
2015
Evidence Reviews

Evaluation of Ebola Response – Uganda

In recent months Uganda has experienced three separate Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) outbreaks. Two Ebola outbreaks in the districts of Kibaale and Luwero and one Marburg event in Kabaale. URCS...
IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Cresent Societies
2013
UNICEF/UN026527/Parry
Evidence Reviews

Health Epidemics Evaluation Report

In 2012 Uganda experienced many disease outbreaks including Measles, Ebola, Marburg and Nodding disease. Two Ebola outbreaks and one Marburg event were in quick succession and placed the Ministry of...
IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Cresent Societies
2013
UNICEF/UNI181845/Irwin
Evidence Reviews

Guide to Community Engagement in WASH: A Practitioner’s Guide, Based on Lessons from Ebola

The Ebola response in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea demonstrated that community engagement is critical in responding to epidemics. This was not always a guiding principle in the fight against...
Oxfam
2016
UNICEF/UN011574/Ueslei Marcelino
Background Reports

A Gendered Human Rights Analysis of Ebola and Zika: Locating Gender in Global Health Emergencies

Globally gender remains a key factor in differing health outcomes for men and women. This article analyses the particular relevance of gender for debates about global health and the role...
International Affairs
2016
UNICEF/UNI177688/UNMEER Martine Perret
Background Reports

Biosocial Approaches to the 2013-2016 Ebola Pandemic

Despite more than 25 documented outbreaks of Ebola since 1976, our understanding of the disease is limited, in particular the social, political, ecological, and economic forces that promote (or limit)...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2015
UNICEF/UNI174715/Nesbitt
Briefings

Ebola and Human Rights: Insight from Experts

Ebola demonstrates the critical link between health and human rights, the lack of governance, and the misdirection that befalls the international community in addressing such outbreaks. Human rights experts agree...
Health and Human Rights Journal
2014
UNICEF/UNI169460/Douglas
Evidence Reviews

The First Mile: Community Experience of Outbreak Control during an Ebola Outbreak in Luwero District, Uganda

A major challenge to outbreak control lies in early detection of viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) in local community contexts during the critical initial stages of an epidemic, when risk of...
BMC Public Health
2016
UNICEF/UNI167543/Jallanzo
Briefings

Diaspora Communications and Health Seeking Behaviour in the Time of Ebola: Findings from the Sierra Leonean Community in London

The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through direct communication...
Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
2015
UNICEF/UNI169461/Douglas
Briefings

Communities are the Real Heroes – Doing Social Mobilisation Differently: Lessons and Recommendations from the Ebola Outbreak

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reinvigorated the debate about the role of ‘social mobilisation’ and ‘community engagement’, not only in response to devastating disease but a range of...
We are restless
2015
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