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Congo-Kinshasa: Songs, Radio Shows, and Door-to-Door Visits - How Community Awareness Is Helping Defeat Ebola
IRIN, 7 June 2018
Relatives ride in on motorbikes, bust three patients out of an Ebola treatment centre, and take them to a church to be prayed over by 50 people. Later, one dies at home, another in… Read more »
How Communities Are Helping Defeat Ebola in DR Congo
Songs, Radio Shows, and Door-to-Door Visits are part of effort been taken in Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million people, to raise awareness about the Ebola virus and to prevent its spread.
Infection prevention and control materials from WHO are brought to the General Reference Hospital in Mbandaka.
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