COVID-19: What Africa Can Learn from Africa – Community Care Centres

“In Ebola in Sierra Leone these were known as Community Care Centres (CCCs)…Because the centres and the staff were local, they were more readily trusted by patients and their families than distant and larger Ebola Treatment Centres, around which dark rumours swirled. As a result, cases were reported by family members and tested more promptly, resulting in reduction in community spread of the disease.”