Ebola lessons for DRC

TO CONTAIN the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Unicef provided support to 145 volunteers of the Congolese Red Cross and community health workers to deliver life-saving information to those in remote areas along the Central African Republic border.

Under the co-ordination of national authorities, and in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, Unicef trained people how to chlorinate water and disinfect homes, as well as on the importance of hand-washing and ways to adapt local burial practices to reduce contamination risks. ANA