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    At Ebola's last mile, community engagement is key

    Health workers in Guinea and Sierra Leone are still working tirelessly to keep the number of Ebola cases at bay. As the virus holds on, global health experts urge even more engagement with local communities.

    By Jeff Tyson // 19 June 2015

    The Ebola epidemic in West Africa that has claimed thousands of lives and wreaked havoc on the fragile economies of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia is no longer front page news. But despite significant progress in tackling the epidemic, the virus remains, and international as well as local health workers are still working day and night to get to zero cases.

    Last week there were 24 confirmed cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Guinea according to the World Health Organization’s latest numbers — a modest improvement compared with the previous week’s 27 cases, and yet a discouraging step backwards from the nine cases reported the week of May 10.

    So what is needed to stamp out the virus? What’s the one thing global health and development professionals should do to reach the long-sought goal of zero Ebola cases?

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    • Jeff Tyson

      Jeff Tyson@jtyson21

      Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.

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