Education key to winning the fight against ebola

As Sierra Leone goes into a four-day ebola ‘lockdown’ from this Friday, Concern’s Breda Gahan says there are echoes of the fear, denial and stigma associated with HIV and AIDS in the early days, but there are also valuable lessons to be learned

THE causes of ebola and AIDS are viruses — insidious viruses that we have come to know more about in recent years. Both can kill. Without treatment, both kill quicker.

This happens especially in the poorest places in developing countries on the African continent. Health service responses are inadequate and under-resourced.