NZEREKORE-GUINEE : Quand on lui a annoncé sa contamination par Ebola, Aminata MILLIMONO s’est crue condamnée. Cependant, prise en charge au Centre de traitement (CT- épi) de N’Nzérékoré, Aminata est sortie guérie. « Quan…
Ler maisIn 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.
Ler maisOn a sultry morning in early March in the small town of Gouécké in south-eastern Guinea, scores of concerned community and customary leaders gathered for a meeting with WHO’s local team of social anthropologists.
Ler maisSpécialiste des maladies tropicales et membre de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé, Marta Lado a participé à l’élaboration et à la mise en place de nouvelles normes de prise en charge des patients malades d’Ebola. En mission en Guinée, elle raconte comment le taux de guérison est passé de 50 % à 70 %.
Ler maisOdia 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.
Ler maisImam 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.
Ler maisStudies 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.
Ler maisA 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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