Guinea: Enhanced Community Engagement Helps Reduce Attacks On Red Cross Volunteers in Guinea

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Conakry — Enhanced face-to-face communication when educating communities in Guinea about the Ebola virus disease is helping to drastically reduce resistance and animosity towards its volunteers, says the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Security incidents, which include physical and verbal attacks, have dropped from ten a month at the start of 2015, to 8 in February, 5 in March and just one to date in April.

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