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Lessons learned from Ebola outbreak 9 in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Description

The report begins with a brief background on situational factors in Equateur province of relevance to emergency health interventions, and a short summary of the 2018 Ebola outbreak and sequencing of the response.

Section 3 highlights lessons learned from assessments on the timely and coordinated response in the 2018 outbreak, drawing out considerations on how to build on these achievements in future responses.

Section 4 explores the limited available evidence on the effectiveness of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine that was used on an ‘emergency use’ basis for the first time in the Equateur response of 2018.


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Publication

2020

Authors

A. Lenhardt

Emergency

Ebola

Language

English

Keywords

Ebola, FAQ, Emergency response, Disease outbreaks, social science research