This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations concerning health beliefs and health-seeking behaviour in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in Équateur Province, the DRC, June 2018. Further participatory enquiry should be undertaken, but given ongoing transmission, conveying key considerations and immediate recommendations related to community engagement have been prioritised. This brief is based on a rapid review of existing published and grey literature, experience of previous Ebola outbreaks in the DRC, Uganda and West Africa, informal discussions with colleagues from UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and GOARN Social Science Group, and input by expert advisers from the CNRS-MNHN-Musée de l’Homme Paris, Institut Pasteur, University of Edinbur...
This briefing outlines the operational recommendations related to healthcare seeking for communities...
SSHAP supports the efforts of the Ugandan National Task Force, Ministry of Health and partners to in...
In August 2021, a suspected case of Ebola was identified at a hospital in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Th...
This brief summarises key considerations concerning changes in behaviour and care-seeking practices ...
This brief summarises key socio-anthropological considerations regarding ‘indigenous communities’ in...
This brief summarises key considerations about the context of Équateur Province in relation to the o...
This brief summarises key socio-cultural issues related to the introduction of vaccine (rVSV‐ZEBOV) ...
This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations concerning events related to death, burial, ...
This brief summarises key considerations about the context of North Kivu province in relation to the...
Key considerations: mental health and psychosocial support, North Kivu, DRC This brief summarises k...
This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations of events related to death, burial, funerals...
Since the start of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Interna...
This report is the second instalment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by th...
Facing a heavy toll in human lives due to the various Ebola virus disease epidemics that have hit th...
International audienceOn April 15, 2015, the West African Ebola outbreak, for nearly one year, affec...
This briefing outlines the operational recommendations related to healthcare seeking for communities...
SSHAP supports the efforts of the Ugandan National Task Force, Ministry of Health and partners to in...
In August 2021, a suspected case of Ebola was identified at a hospital in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Th...
This brief summarises key considerations concerning changes in behaviour and care-seeking practices ...
This brief summarises key socio-anthropological considerations regarding ‘indigenous communities’ in...
This brief summarises key considerations about the context of Équateur Province in relation to the o...
This brief summarises key socio-cultural issues related to the introduction of vaccine (rVSV‐ZEBOV) ...
This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations concerning events related to death, burial, ...
This brief summarises key considerations about the context of North Kivu province in relation to the...
Key considerations: mental health and psychosocial support, North Kivu, DRC This brief summarises k...
This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations of events related to death, burial, funerals...
Since the start of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Interna...
This report is the second instalment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by th...
Facing a heavy toll in human lives due to the various Ebola virus disease epidemics that have hit th...
International audienceOn April 15, 2015, the West African Ebola outbreak, for nearly one year, affec...
This briefing outlines the operational recommendations related to healthcare seeking for communities...
SSHAP supports the efforts of the Ugandan National Task Force, Ministry of Health and partners to in...
In August 2021, a suspected case of Ebola was identified at a hospital in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Th...