Guinea — News

4 June 2021

Preventing sexual abuse and exploitation in Guinea

In the small village of Sinkolé in the densely-forested south-east of Guinea, scores of men and women gather outside a ramshackle community hall on a Friday morning. Marius Djo, a World Health Organization (WHO) advisor on Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (PSEA), waits for everyone to take a seat on old wooden school benches arranged in a rough semi-circle, then he begins an animated introduction.

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27 April 2021 | Ebola Disease

En Guinée, le personnel de santé en première ligne des infections par Ebola

Odia Doumbouya travaille dans le domaine de la santé depuis 7 ans, mais jamais on ne lui avait vanté le « nettoyage en S » du sol comme une technique de lutte efficace contre une épidémie d’Ebola. « Cela consiste à mettre la serpillère sur la raclette et à former un S en nettoyant les surfaces », explique la surveillante générale de l’hôpital régional de N’Zérékoré, dans le sud-est de la Guinée, où sévit une épidémie d’Ebola depuis près de deux mois. Ce qui peut sembler un détail permet en réalité de débarrasser les sols du dangereux virus et d’éviter des infections.

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13 April 2021 | Ebola Disease

An imam, a priest and the Ebola fight in Guinea

Imam El hadj Moussa Soumahoro wears a serious face. He has just ended a morning sermon that concluded with Ebola preventive messages and the importance of vaccination against the virus that recently re-emerged in Guinea for the first time since the 2014–2016 outbreak. Soumahoro has joined the fight against the disease.

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1 April 2021 | Ebola Disease

Bolstering community approach in Guinea’s Ebola fight

A few days after he referred a patient from his clinic to the regional hospital, Emmanuel Goepogui, a private practitioner in N’Zerekore prefecture in south-eastern Guinea, received a visit by a community disease surveillance team. “They came to inform me that my patient had tested positive for Ebola and that I was a direct contact,” he says.

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1 April 2021 | Ebola Disease

Genome sequencing in Ebola response

Studies show that the Ebola virus can persist in bodily fluids – such as semen and breast milk – of survivors for months. The recent resurgence of Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been linked to bodily fluids of survivors.

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