EBOLA - Remain vigilant (ENG)

The Ebola epidemic may well be slowing down but it’s not time yet for the teams working in the affected countries to relax their efforts.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF143315

Date taken / Date Recorded 18/03/2015 12:00 AM

Country Guinea

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On March 23rd 2014, the World Health Organization officially declared an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
One year on, close to 10,000 people have died and the epidemic continues to spread in Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The Ebola epidemic may well be slowing down but it’s not time yet for the teams working in the affected countries to relax their efforts. There are still small pockets of infection in Guinea and Sierra Leone and people continue to be resistant to awareness campaigns.

Timing is critical. Just one case of Ebola not detected in time can be enough to wipe out all the work put into containing the epidemic.
So, to ensure that people understand and integrate infection-prevention advice, health promotion teams like this one in Monrovia repeat the same messages time and time again.

Elsie Siboe, health promotion supervisor, MSF (in English)
We have to ensure that people are aware that once there’s an outbreak, in future it's possible that we'll most likely to have another outbreak, and community burials or touching our dead bodies is one of the things that we have to think about and consider to do some behaviour change.

Once the epidemic is over, countries affected by the outbreak face the challenge of restoring their already fragile healthcare systems that have been reduced to a state of collapse.