Tagged with: Ebola
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Malaria programme tackles COVID-19 in Sierra Leone - how vital information saves lives
Mary Morgan
Head of Production, BBC Media Action Sierra Leone
Our health radio programme Tawa Fo Welbodi is encouraging people to keep taking malaria prevention seriously during the #COVID19 pandemic whilst adapting fast to address the extra challenges it brings.
Speaking up for Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone
Allieu Sesay
Head of Production, BBC Media Action Sierra Leone
In 2014 Abass had survived Ebola but lost his child and other family members to the deadly virus. He became a voice for Ebola survivors across Sierra Leone through a BBC Media Action radio show and recently celebrated the birth of a baby daughter. Allieu Sesay tells his story.
Love in the time of Ebola
Yvonne MacPherson
Executive Director, BBC Media Action USA
BBC Media Action’s US Director on the challenge of prioritising and measuring the intangible in global health crises.
Ebola: audience research by mobile phone
Dorothy Peprah
Research Manager
We explain why, at the peak of the Ebola virus outbreak in Liberia, BBC Media Action conducted audience research by mobile phone.
By bike, by bus and by boat: Our Ebola radio show’s incredible bi-weekly journey across Sierra Leone.
Paul Massaquoi
Production Coordinator, BBC Media Action
Getting life-saving radio shows about Ebola on air across Sierra Leone takes nerves, ingenuity and a fleet of volunteers willing to hike, bike and sail across the country. Paul Massaquoi explains.
A dramatic approach to Ebola
Mary Kolu Massaquoi
Script Writer, BBC Media Action
Mary Kolu Massaquoi has drawn on her experience in healthcare and radio production to help shape a new BBC Media Action radio drama designed to improve knowledge about Ebola in West Africa.
A man with a plan: using drama to tackle Ebola
Yvonne Macpherson and Radharani Mitra
Director, USA and Creative Director, India, BBC Media Action
How our teams are harnessing the power of drama to help people in West Africa respond to Ebola.
Fighting Ebola: now it’s personal
Mustapha Dumbuya
Radio Producer
How the deaths of his family members made producer Mustapha Dumbuya doubly determined to give people accurate information to help protect them against Ebola.
