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Briefings
Burial/Other Cultural Practices and Risk of EVD Transmission in the Mano River Region
While this briefing note identifies arenas of particular significance with regard to burial practices, such practices are not standardised, are likely to change as social responses to Ebola evolve, and therefore need to be discussed on a locality by locality…
Briefings
The flow of money at the community level fr
This brief summarises some key considerations about the flow and control of money in relation to the Ebola response.
Briefings
Regional food insecurity, work migration and roadblocks fr
This brief summarises some key considerations about food insecurity, the migration of men and youth for work and the implication these movements may have for the Ebola response.
Briefings
The significance of death, funerals and the after-life in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia: Anthropological insights into infection and social resistance
The aim of this briefing paper is to consider the various ways in which widely reported fear and resistance to the Ebola response can be understood, and what each way of understanding offers to those battling with the current epidemic.
Briefings
Ebola and Older People in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea
The limited evidence available on age-disaggregated fatality rates of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) consistently highlights the poor survival rates of older people compared with young adults.
Case Studies
‘Resistance’ in Guinea fr
The following key considerations have been collated from the suggestions and insights provided by over twenty-five anthropologists and social-behavioural scientists (based in West Africa and internationally) who answered an on-line call to provide guidance and operational recommendations in relation to…
Case Studies
Covid-19 in Gaza: Community Perspectives on the Pandemic
This interactive PowerPoint outlines the findings of a study into the perspectives of Palestinians living in refugee communities on a range of COVID-19 public health measures
Infographics
Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Key messages from our briefing on Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Infographics
COVID-19: Building Community Resilience to Prepare for and Respond to Epidemics
Key messages from our briefing on Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
Briefings
Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks arfres
Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics
Briefings
Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery aresfr
How health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to, and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach.
Briefings
6 Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management frar
This brief explains how social science can inform infodemiology by making it more attuned to different social, political and cultural contexts and to the relationships between people and formal institutions.
