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Hot Spot Busters, a Community Focused Intervention in Sierra Leone

November 4, 2016/in Case Study Health Communication Capacity Collaborative, Ministry of Health and Sanitation The Republic of Sierra Leonne, UNICEF Sierra Leone English Social Mobilization /by Brandon Desiderio

The “Hotspot Busters Initiative” was aimed at reducing and eliminating the spread of EVD in hotspot areas as soon as cases appeared. It became a key element of UNICEF’s response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. UNICEF and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), in partnership with the Health for all Coalition (HFAC), a local community-based organization with a network of social mobilizers in the field, implemented this intervention at the ward level across the country.

How does Hotspot Busting work? 

A hotspot was defined by HFAC as ‘any two suspected cases from a community’.

The activities of this initiative aimed to:

• Sensitize Paramount Chiefs and traditional leaders on the need for intensification of the EVD response in the hotspot communities, including dissemination of chiefdom by-laws on EVD;

• Undertake intense door to door community sensitization;

• Provide key messages via SBCC materials;

• Facilitate community referrals; and,

• Report on suspected cases.

These brief case studies reflect the contribution of numerous partners in the social mobilization pillar co-chaired by UNICEF and the Ministry of Health

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Case Study

Topic(s)

Social Mobilization

Language(s)

English

Country(ies)

Sierra Leone

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Health Communication Capacity Collaborative

Ministry of Health and Sanitation The Republic of Sierra Leonne

UNICEF

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