About this Project

The EVD Outbreak Portal website is a result of a coordinated effort of Independent Social Performance, Habitat Health Impact Consulting, and IBIS West Africa. It was constructed for the project by David Schwartz.

The EVD Outbreak Portal supports an active rapid research project called “Understanding the Socio-Economic and Health Consequences of the Ebola Outbreak on Mining Host Communities in Sierra Leone.”

The website aggregates news articles from local, national and international news sources (full list to be provided in the near future) filtered through a simple 3-tier keyword/phrase structure:

1st Tier

‘Country’ (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria, DRC) + ‘Ebola’

2nd Tier

Country and Health: ‘Ebola’ + [+Country] – extractives keywords
Country and Extractives: ‘Ebola’ + ‘Extractives’ [+Country]

3rd Tier

Country and Mining: ‘Ebola’ + ‘Mining’ [+Country]
Country and Oil and Gas: ‘Ebola’ + ‘Oil and Gas’ [+Country]

The website continuously crawls the web and updates itself constantly. While articles are presented in partial text with links to the original sources, the full text of the article is being privately archived in the website database for future reference and potentially for discourse analysis. This website does not generate profit, and is providing relevant media links for Ebola in West Africa. All article links direct to source website. All publishers retain original copyright.

Please take into account that this site has yet to be fully optimized and as a result there may be the occasional ‘false positive’ article. Should the database be used for future discourse analysis, please be aware that the articles will likely require a manual confirmation of the each article being appropriate for the data set.

If you are a post-graduate researcher and interested in conducting a discourse analysis using the articles collected by this site, please contact us to discuss.

If you have any questions or comments about this website, please contact Independent Social Performance at contact@independentsp.com

Escalating violence in eastern CAR poses grave threat to civilians

12 June 2017 4:33 PM
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Source: Invisible Children Country: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo Armed group violence has escalated sharply in eastern CAR in recent weeks, particularly in Mbomou and Haute Kotto prefectures. In May alone, ex-Seleka forces and ‘anti-balaka’ militias killed 132 civilians in the towns of Bangassou and Bria. Armed groups have killed 220 civilians […]

Using Facebook data to help communities after a disaster

8 June 2017 7:20 PM
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Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Country: Malawi, World A new collaboration with Facebook will allow the American Red Cross and the IFRC to use aggregated Facebook data to target communities in need, deliver aid, and fight disease when a disaster occurs. In the hours and days after any disaster, humanitarian […]

After Ebola, Liberia’s health system on path to recovery

8 June 2017 6:52 AM
ReliefWeb

Source: World Bank Country: Liberia The development of a triage and isolation facility in a hospital in Sinoe county by the World bank helped contain a meningococcal outbreak in May 2017. STORY HIGHLIGHTS More medical training and equipment mean Liberia’s medical services have improved since the 2014 Ebola outbreak killed over 4,800 people in the […]

DRC approves use of Ebola vaccine to fight outbreak

29 May 2017 12:56 PM
ReliefWeb

Source: Reuters – Thomson Reuters Foundation Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo The vaccine, known as rVSV-ZEBOV and developed by Merck, is not yet licensed but was shown to be highly protective against Ebola in clinical trials published last December. KINSHASA, May 29 (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry has approved the use […]

DRC Ebola outbreak threatens CAR after violence forces thousands across border

25 May 2017 12:31 PM
ReliefWeb

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Country: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo Attacks by Christian militias in CAR’s border town of Bangassou have driven about 2,750 people into Bas-Uele, raising the risk that the Ebola outbreak could spread across the border, a WHO representative said. By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, May 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) […]

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