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Author: Yolanda Romero

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Aisha (18) asks health workers about how to administer the malaria drugs to her sister (4) and her brother (1).
Fighting two killers: malaria and Ebola

Fighting two killers: malaria and Ebola

Children in emergencies

By Yolanda Romero

When you’re living in Sierra Leone and you start coming down with a fever, headache and aching joints, one word is on everyone’s mind: Ebola! But the symptoms are also common to other diseases including malaria – the country’s deadliest disease for children. Anecdotally, the Ebola outbreak also makes people with more… Read more →←
(c)UNICEF/2014/Pi JamesBasiru Bah, 17, explains how Ebola prevention methods present a special challenge to those who are visually-impaired.
Ebola: helping people with impaired vision to stay safe

Ebola: helping people with impaired vision to stay safe

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By Yolanda Romero

Story also available in: Français
In Sierra Leone, social mobilization teams have been spreading the message out about how best to protect yourself from the Ebola virus. One large billboard sponsored by UNICEF and the Sierra Leone Football Association is typical: promoting hand washing and the 117 Ebola hotline. Elsewhere, what are often quite graphic posters, explain… Read more →←
The trainer from the Centre of Control Disease in Atlanta, Ben Levy, teaches one workshop attendant how to use the double pair of latex gloves to avoid being infected by Ebola. In Sierra Leone, more than 80 health workers have died due to Ebola , while more than 100 have become infected.
Fighting Ebola with knowledge in Sierra Leone

Fighting Ebola with knowledge in Sierra Leone

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By Yolanda Romero

Story also available in: Français
Twenty students sit in a classroom in Freetown listening to a trainer. It should be a common scene, but the topic, Ebola and their ages (mostly 40s), makes this a different type of lesson. The students are all health workers, including nurses and doctors, learning how to prevent infection in a highly contagious environment. The training… Read more →←
On 19 September, a social mobilizer speaks with residents about protecting themselves against Ebola.
Inside Sierra Leone’s campaign to stop Ebola

Inside Sierra Leone’s campaign to stop Ebola

Insider

By Yolanda Romero

The normally bustling streets of Freetown are empty, silent. From time to time a vehicle appears on the deserted road with the emergency lights on and keeps on going. It’s 7 am on the 19th of September, the first day of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) house-to-house sensitization campaign in Sierra Leone – or Ouse to Ouse Tock as… Read more →←

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