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Sierra Leone Ebola survivors to hold landmark meet
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | October 14, 2014
GENEVA, October 14- Dozens of Ebola survivors, now immune to the deadly disease, will meet in Sierra Leone this week to see how they can help tackle the epidemic, the UN said Tuesday.
They can assist sufferers because they have experienced the stigmatisation caused by the disease and have endured being treated in an isolation ward, Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN?s children?s aid agency UNICEF, said.
The survivors will gather on Wednesday and Thursday in Kemena, in southeast Sierra Leone.
?It?s an innovative move to enlist people who are immune to Ebola in Sierra Leone in the fight against the disease. It will bring together 35 people who recovered from Ebola, and some practitioners,? Boulierac told reporters in Geneva.
He said more gatherings were in the pipeline, noting that last month UNICEF had said it eventually hoped to connect 2,500 survivors.
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http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2014/10/sierra-leone-ebola-survivors-to-hold-landmark-meet/
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | October 14, 2014
GENEVA, October 14- Dozens of Ebola survivors, now immune to the deadly disease, will meet in Sierra Leone this week to see how they can help tackle the epidemic, the UN said Tuesday.
They can assist sufferers because they have experienced the stigmatisation caused by the disease and have endured being treated in an isolation ward, Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN?s children?s aid agency UNICEF, said.
The survivors will gather on Wednesday and Thursday in Kemena, in southeast Sierra Leone.
?It?s an innovative move to enlist people who are immune to Ebola in Sierra Leone in the fight against the disease. It will bring together 35 people who recovered from Ebola, and some practitioners,? Boulierac told reporters in Geneva.
He said more gatherings were in the pipeline, noting that last month UNICEF had said it eventually hoped to connect 2,500 survivors.
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http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2014/10/sierra-leone-ebola-survivors-to-hold-landmark-meet/