Learning from the Ebola Response in Cities: Responding in the context of urban quarantine

Author(s)
Leah Campbell, with Christopher Adan and Milimer Morgado
Publication language
English
Pages
19pp
Date published
02 May 2017
Publisher
ALNAP
Type
Lessons papers
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban
Countries
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Organisations
ALNAP

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.