Comprehensive Program for Ebola Survivors (CPES) Impact Report - Sierra Leone, (2016-2018)

n  2015, the  President  of  Sierra Leone instructed various government departments, including the Ministry  of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), to lead a Comprehensive Program for Ebola Survivors (CPES) following an outbreak of the disease within the country. The Programme’s long-term objective was to improve the wellbeing of approximately 3,500 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) survivors, by providing both basic and specialized healthcare that could be reached by CPES by integrating survivor health care into the national MoHS system.

The plan’s goals were to provide free healthcare for EVD survivors at MoHS facilities by reducing financial, logistical, and psychosocial barriers to  treatment,  increasing  the  capacity  of  existing  facilities  and systems  to  provide  better  care  across  the  health  service  delivery system, and reduce the risk of EVD resurgence through sexual risk-reduction counselling and access to viral persistence testing.

This report provides an analysis of the research that was conducted by Focus1000 that was implemented in a longitudinal (Baseline1 vs. End-line) design and that used mixed methods (quantitative personal interview surveys (PIS) with EVD survivors and qualitative in-depth interviews (IDI) with key informants).