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“People’s science”: How West African communities fought the Ebola epidemic and won

26 January 2017

While West African governments were overawed by Ebola, local communities organised and fought back, providing a lesson for future emergencies

Analysis

Five rare humanitarian success stories of 2016 (plus caveats)
29 December 2016
It’s hard to see the silver lining around a year as awful as 2016, but a few good news stories did emerge
Feature

Polio hopes and Zika fears in the vaccine race
6 April 2016
“Ebola’s scary because we know what it can do. Zika’s scary because we don’t know yet what it can do."

A look back at Ebola
28 December 2015 Analysis
Ebola: Where are we now?
27 August 2015 News
Post-Ebola Syndrome: It's not over for Ebola survivors
10 August 2015 Analysis

News

Ebola vaccine: reason to be hopeful?
31 July 2015
News that an Ebola vaccine trialled in Guinea has proved 100 percent effective has elicited both excitement and caution from a range of actors closely...
Feature

Can WHO learn the lessons from Ebola?
13 July 2015
An independent panel described the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as “delayed” and “inadequate,” so what...
Analysis

Water key to Ebola fight
15 June 2015
It is a cruel irony that many of the top doctors and nurses in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will not be around to help...
Analysis

Why isn’t Guinea-Bissau ready for Ebola?
2 June 2015
The government of Guinea-Bissau has known for months about the risk of Ebola entering the country, but it hasn't done enough to prepare. Now there...
Feature

Photo feature: Ebola tales from Guinea
28 May 2015
More than 3,600 people have fallen sick with Ebola in Guinea since the outbreak was first declared in March 2014. At least 2,423 of them...
Feature

Guineans adjust to life after Ebola
13 May 2015
“Life is back to normal, but everything has changed,” said 30-year-old Yawa Keterine Camara as she slowly stirred a boiling cauldron of sauce outside her...

Ebola’s silver lining: Guineans learn to have faith in hospitals
8 May 2015 News
How serious are Guinea protests?
5 May 2015 Analysis
Guinea Ebola diary: In the land of lost handshakes
1 May 2015 Feature
Vaccination teams defeat 'Ebola effect' in Guinea
29 April 2015 News
A year on, Guineans finally lay Ebola souls to rest
28 April 2015 Feature
Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Analysis

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