For about four months, the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia have been facing the worst-ever epidemic of Ebola in the capital cities as well as rural areas, and neighboring countries are also enacting policies to fight the disease’s spread.
Kim Yi Dionne writes in The Washington Post, “Why West African Governments Are Struggling in Response to Ebola,” about the complications of responding to Ebola, particularly when health professionals, already spread thin, might face cultural contexts different from their own.
Umaru Fofana writes in “How to Ignore a Plague” for Medium.com of Sierra Leone ‘s response and how church and mosque leaders, among others, are adapting their practices to the disease.