posted on 2024-09-05, 20:43authored byFoday Mamoud Kamara, Esther Yei Mokuwa, Paul Richards
Concern has been expressed over how well Africa is prepared to cope with the pandemic of Covid-19. Will rural populations with low levels of education know how to apply community-based infection control? We undertook fieldwork in two villages in central Sierra Leone to gain insight into how rural people faced with Covid-19 assess epidemic infection risks.
Funding
The Wellcome Trust
History
Publisher
PLoSONE
Citation
Kamara FM, Mokuwa EY, Richards P (2020) How Villagers in Central Sierra Leone Understand Infection Risks Under Threat of Covid-19. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0235108. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235108