The first mile: community experience of outbreak control during an Ebola outbreak in Luwero District, Uganda

Abstract

[...]a "social mobilization" agenda is often called for, where entire communities participate in "quickly identifying and isolating infected individuals before they can transmit the virus" [9] - or, as the World Health Organization plainly puts it, "involve everyone" [10]. [...]the "first mile" problem is not only a question of using local resources for early detection, but also of making use, in public health outreach, of the contextual cultural knowledge that has already been collected and is readily available.