Ebola Interventions: Listen to Communities

Author(s)
Kutalek, R., et al.
Publication language
English
Pages
1pp
Date published
01 Mar 2015
Publisher
The Lancet Global Health
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban
Countries
Liberia
Organisations
The Lancet
Link
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25618243

Active case finding (which includes contact tracing) ensures early identification and prompt isolation of potential cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), leading to successful interruption of transmission in a community. Failure to identify and follow up all contacts could be enough to keep the outbreak going.

In late November, 2014, Liberia's Ministry of Health and WHO Liberia did a rapid qualitative assessment (supported by the World Bank) of the perceptions of selected communities in Monrovia on an incentive scheme that intends to increase the reporting of EVD cases. This scheme proposed that, for each suspect case reported, US$5 would be provided.