1. Learning from the Ebola Response in Cities: Responding in the context of urban quarantine
- Author:
- Leah Campbell, Christopher Adan, and Milimer Morgado
- Publication Date:
- 05-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- The West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014/15 posed a number of urban-specific challenges to humanitarians responding to the crisis. ALNAP's 'Learning from Ebola' series brings together the lessons learnt from the response in West Africa, with each paper focusing on a topic: quarantine, population movement, and engaging with communities. Quarantine This paper brings together lessons from interviews with humanitarians and local responders, as well as existing literature, about the use of quarantine in urban environments during the humanitarian response to the Ebola Crisis.
- Topic:
- Ebola, Urban, Cities, Disaster Management, Epidemic, and Humanitarian Response
- Political Geography:
- Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea