Resources

The report begins with a brief background on situational factors in Equateur province of relevance to emergency health interventions, and a short summary of the 2018 Ebola outbreak and sequencing of the response.

Section 3 highlights lessons learned from assessments on the timely and coordinated response in the 2018 outbreak, drawing out considerations on how to build on these achievements in future responses.

Section 4 explores the limited available evidence on the effectiveness of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine that was used on an ‘emergency use’ basis for the first time in the Equateur response of 2018.