Step 2.13 Stigma around treatment and survival
Channel: LSHTM Technology Enhanced Learning team
Date: 2015-06-22

Understandably Ebola causes fear, and out of fear comes stigmatisation of all those involved, not just the sick patients but survivors, healthcare and other Ebola response workers and their families. Families are ostracised, landlords terminate contracts, and people find themselves homeless and rejected by their communities.