Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
7 April 2021
Sierra Leone
Text
Over 3000 Words
When the rise of Ebola in West Africa strict protocols when handling those who were dying or had died from the disease, public health officials began working with anthropologists and other social scientists to increas...
2 February 2021
Rwanda
Game
Under 800 Words
Before the first case of Covid-19 was reported within country borders, Rwanda had already started preparations – including a testing strategy and contact tracing – to prevent the spread of the virus. Although resource...
Africa in Fact
Andrew Panton
9 December 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Text
1500-3000 Words
A failed response to the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has helped prepare the country's government and health officials to respond more successfully to the coronavirus pandemic and other public...
13 November 2020
Central African Republic
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
Many countries in Africa have been able to contain the spread of COVID-19 due to lessons learned from fighting the Ebola epidemic. Although not all African countries have implemented successful strategies, those that ...
5 May 2020
Johannesburg, Central African Republic
Text
800-1500 Words
To contain the coronavirus and reopen the economy, state governments throughout the United States are implementing public health lessons that were learned in West Africa during the Ebola outbreak. Although the two out...
21 April 2020
Kampala, Uganda
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
Having spent a number of years combatting Ebola and Marburg viruses, officials in Uganda were able to quickly set into a motion a series of proactive strategies such as restriction of movement, surveillance strategies...
7 January 2020
Canada
Text
Over 3000 Words
It was a "trial that almost hadn’t happened" that only happened due to collective action and a piloting effort, that lead to the creation of the world's first Ebola vaccine. Between community commitment and researcher...
23 July 2018
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Text
800-1500 Words
Ebola is a highly contagious deadly disease that can wipe out dozens of people in a community if it goes untreated or undetected. However, there is now a vaccine that can be given to anyone who may have come into cont...
28 May 2018
Morogoro, Tanzania
Text
800-1500 Words
The South African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance is piloting a program to use smartphone technology to report and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. The program trains community members to recognize ...
10 December 2017
Lagos, Nigeria
Text
Over 3000 Words
Nigeria contained its 2014 Ebola outbreak through rapid emergency response and compassionate care. In less than 10 weeks, health workers visited more than 147,000 people who may have had first or second degree contact...
27 June 2017
Norway
Text
1500-3000 Words
With climate change, population pressures and mobilization epidemics will occur more frequently, and past ones have proven to be disastrous and expensive. The Center for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is foc...
Vox
Julia Belluz
22 December 2016
Guinea
Text
800-1500 Words
In Guinea, scientists were ready to test a new vaccine but due to the decline of cases of ebola there were too few cases to run a meaningful traditional randomized study. Using ring vaccination, a public health method...
The Guardian
Ruth Maclean
28 September 2016
Kissidougou, Guinea
Text
800-1500 Words
In South Africa, when a person is sick they visit their local healer, but during the Ebola outbreak the healers with little knowledge of the disease often became infected and infected others. So the government in Guin...
26 May 2016
Faranah, Guinea
Text
Over 3000 Words
A doctor in Guinea trains health workers to halt the transmission of Ebola, but also must work to increase trust in and reliance on health care workers among villagers through a "community agents" network.
24 November 2015
Monrovia, Montserrado, Liberia
Text
1500-3000 Words
Westerners' fear of infection of Ebola motivated a vaccine in record time, but a preventive system put in place could ensure similar results for other viruses before they reach the same magnitude.
16 September 2015
Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
Text
Over 3000 Words
King’s Partnership and Partners in Health are outliers in the global health community in focusing on the mentorship of Sierra Leone’s next generation of doctors. The country has a profound need for more medical experts.
29 August 2015
Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
Text
Under 800 Words
Local leaders in Sierra Leone helped curb an epidemic, as foreign agencies encouraged chiefs and traditional healers to get involved. Local involvement created more effective engagement.
16 February 2015
Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
Text
800-1500 Words
As trials on blood and plasma progress, researchers ask if they might have happened sooner. In any case, the blood transfusions show early success.
30 January 2015
Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the face of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in modern history, health officials found themselves struggling to prevent the virus from spreading due to clashes with local traditions, cultural mistrust of outsiders, con...
The New York Times
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
10 November 2014
Kayes, Mali
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
When a case of the Ebola disease struck a little girl in Africa, health officials in Mali collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to contain the illness and q...
31 October 2014
Nigeria
Text
Under 800 Words
The media could help countries still affected by Ebola by focusing on Nigeria, where they defeated the virus through effective public institutions that protected the public interest, such as rejecting cash but accepti...
19 October 2014
Lagos, Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
When the Ebola virus struck Nigeria and Senegal the governments of both countries took several steps to prevent an outbreak. Both countries responded to the first reported case quickly, traced all of the people that t...
16 October 2014
Nigeria
Text
Under 800 Words
A nightmare scenario of Ebola raging unchecked among millions of slum-dwellers in Africa's largest city has given way to a rare example of a victory over the virus.
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