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CDC and Partners use Data-Driven Communication Interventions to Fight Ebola
Alongside medical and public health approaches to combat Ebola, CDC and its partners have employed interventions that influence public opinion and result in behavior changes so that communities and families have accurate information and are willing to use it to protect themselves against disease...
Posted November 4, 2015
Speeding Up Ebola Diagnosis in Sierra Leone: Transporting Laboratory Samples
One of the biggest early challenges to the West Africa Ebola response was to rapidly deliver critical laboratory samples from medical facilities to labs for testing. Public health experts knew time was against them—the longer it took to diagnose the virus, the longer people’s lives were at risk....
Posted October 13, 2015
CDC credited for its major contributions to Sierra Leone to stop the spread of Ebola
Major Conteh is the Minister of Defense for the Government of Sierra Leone. He became the CEO of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) at the height of the epidemic, in November 2014, when the outbreak was “out of hand,” with about 500 cases being reported per week...
Posted October 3, 2015
CDC Health Promotion Team Led the Way for Effective Communication to Fight Ebola
In spring 2014, BBC Media Action had to learn fast to conceive and execute an effective and desperately needed public information campaign as the Ebola epidemic began its steep and unnerving rise in Sierra Leone....
Posted September 30, 2015
CDC and CDC Foundation Supported Journalists to Fight Ebola in Sierra Leone
In the spring of 2014, news media in Sierra Leone were not widely used to broadcast disease prevention messages to slow the growing Ebola outbreak. Few people were thinking about the role that media could play as part of the response at that time...
Posted September 30, 2015
Destigmatizing Ambulances during the Ebola Response
In much of the world, an arriving ambulance with its siren blaring signals hope – and relief – in times of medical crisis, and tangible proof that help is literally at your doorstep...
Posted September 30, 2015
1-1-7 Ebola Call Center
At the 1-1-7 Ebola Call Center in Freetown, over 100 operators working in three shifts to answer questions about Sierra Leone’s outbreak 24 hours a day...
Posted August 4, 2015
Mabinty Tarawally — 1-1-7 Hotline Responder
Mabinty Tarawally has worked as a 1-1-7 Call Center responder for almost a year. When she began, the national call center consisted of seven people who handled 100 calls a day in a small room at the World Health Organization’s Sierra Leone country office. Tarawally joined the 1-1-7 Call Center in September 2014, and has seen the number and nature of calls from Sierra Leoneans change over the course of the outbreak...
Posted August 4, 2015
Improving Infection Prevention and Control in Sierra Leone
At the height of Sierra Leone’s Ebola outbreak, the walls of Connaught Hospital in Freetown were papered with tributes to dozens of staff members who had been infected with Ebola at the hospital and died...
Posted July 20, 2015
CDC EIS Officer helped ambulance staff avoid Ebola infection in Sierra Leone
Everyone involved in the effort to get to zero Ebola cases knows a key to controlling the spread of disease is quickly isolating any person believed to have the virus...
Posted July 20, 2015
CDC conducts infection prevention and control training, assistance, and mentoring in Sierra Leone's districts.
Learn about our staff in the Kambia District of CDC.
- Page last reviewed: October 15, 2015
- Page last updated: October 15, 2015
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