From Ebola & Cholera to COVID-19 - Applying Lessons from Responses during Cholera and Ebola Outbreaks to COVID-19 Response

Author(s)
CARE International
Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Date published
31 Mar 2020
Type
Lessons papers
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Epidemics & pandemics, Health, humanitarian action, Organisational Learning and Change
Organisations
CARE International

Between 2015 and 2019, CARE has run 57 projects that aimed to stop the spread of infectious disease epidemics — like Ebola, cholera, and zika — in 20 countries around the world. These projects collectively worked with 9 million people directly and 16.7 million indirectly. This document draws lessons from CARE’s response to some of the most severe epidemics in recent memory to inform COVID-19 response.