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The young people coping with bereavement and the stigma of Ebola
Health workers with a young patient under quarantine at an ebola treatment centre in Conakry, Guinea Source: Getty / CELLOU BINANI
It’s ten years since the start of what became the biggest recorded outbreak of Ebola. The epidemic killed more than 11,000 in West Africa. The three countries worst affected were Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, where the outbreak originated. Families were ravaged: an estimated twenty thousand children were left without one or both of their parents. Those children had to cope - both with bereavement at such a young age AND the stigma within their community
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