EVD Outbreak Portal

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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.

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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

  • News Articles Aggregated:  133,829

Health and News Alerts

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

9 January 2019    11:00 PM
World Health Organization

This article was originally published on this website.WHO and partners continue to respond to the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in one of the most complex settings possible.

Ebola response resumes despite ‘risky environment’

8 January 2019    11:13 PM
ReliefWeb

This article was originally published on this website.Source: UN News Service Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo WHO now says that, under Government leadership and in collaboration with partner agencies, the Ebola response has resumed across all the affected regions in North Kivu Province. Despite a precarious security environment and continuing pockets of mistrust on […]

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

3 January 2019    11:00 PM
World Health Organization

This article was originally published on this website.The response by WHO and partners to the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak continues despite disruptions to key services due to security incidents taking place in Beni and Butembo during the recent election on 30 December 2018. In order to ensure the safety of all staff deployed, […]

How IFRC responded to the five biggest emergencies in Africa in 2018

31 December 2018    10:08 AM
ReliefWeb

This article was originally published on this website.Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Country: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe The IFRC responded to 34 emergencies in 22 countries across Africa where millions were affected by natural disasters, epidemics, […]

Oxfam forced to suspend Ebola response in DR Congo following pre-election violence

28 December 2018    1:23 PM
ReliefWeb

This article was originally published on this website.Source: Oxfam Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo “This is an extremely worrying situation, as every time the Ebola response has been suspended before we’ve seen a big spike in the number of new cases. This could mean Ebola spreading to even more people and other countries,“ – […]

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