| power, fairness and trust: understanding and engaging with vaccine trial participants and communities in the setting up the ebovac-salone vaccine trial in sierra leone. | this paper discusses the establishment of a clinical trial of an ebola vaccine candidate in kambia district, northern sierra leone during the epidemic, and analyses the role of social science research in ensuring that lessons from the socio-political context, the recent experience of the ebola outbreak, and learning from previous clinical trials were incorporated in the development of community engagement strategies. the paper aims to provide a case study of an integrated social science and comm ... | 2016 | 27821112 |
| discovery and description of ebola zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the west african epidemic during 2013-2016. | in 1976, the first cases of ebola virus disease in northern democratic republic of the congo (then referred to as zaire) were reported. this article addresses who was responsible for recognizing the disease; recovering, identifying, and naming the virus; and describing the epidemic. key scientific approaches used in 1976 and their relevance to the 3-country (guinea, sierra leone, and liberia) west african epidemic during 2013-2016 are presented. | 2016 | 27357339 |
| notes from the field: ebola virus disease cluster - northern sierra leone, january 2016. | on january 14, 2016, the sierra leone ministry of health and sanitation was notified that a buccal swab collected on january 12 from a deceased female aged 22 years (patient a) in tonkolili district had tested positive for ebola virus by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr). the most recent case of ebola virus disease (ebola) in sierra leone had been reported 4 months earlier on september 13, 2015 (1), and the world health organization had declared the end of ebola virus tran ... | 2016 | 27388584 |