Sierra Leone: The Following Account Is By Irin Journalist Anna Jefferys Who, Together With Filmmaker Ricci Shyrock, Visited Sierra Leone Earlier This Month. It Is the Final Part of a Three-Part Series. Read Part One and Part Two.

Freetown — On the return trip to Freetown from Kenema a couple of days later we meet Laventa Konneh in Moyambo town, the only person allowed to leave her house because the town is in lockdown and she is a contact tracer.

She goes house to house in Moyambo with kits of chlorine and rubber gloves to check if people Ebola patients have come into contact with over the past 21 days have symptoms of the disease, and to remind them how to stay out of harm. Do households with Ebola sufferers face stigma in this town? "No, there is no stigma here. If they are quarantined in their house we can watch them, that's all." Does everyone tell the truth about illnesses in the family? "Some tell the truth, some do not - some are being afraid," she says.

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