Trish Newport
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“The community needs to be aware about the outbreak. They need to be involved in the response. They need to know what the signs and symptoms are and what to do if they get sick,”
Trish Newport · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-19
Trish Newport highlighted the need for community awareness and involvement in responding to the Ebola outbreak.
“The community needs to be aware about the outbreak,”
Trish Newport · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-17
Newport told The Associated Press that limited community engagement remains a key challenge in Congo's Ebola outbreak.
“We rapidly need to scale up to be able to prevent more deaths from happening, more families and communities from being impacted,”
Trish Newport · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-17
Newport said some families in the Ituri province epicenter have lost up to 15 relatives and urged a rapid scale-up.
“need to be involved in the response, and they need to know what the signs and symptoms are and what to do if they get sick. And this today is not happening in every single place where there are Ebola cases.”
Trish Newport · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-17
Newport told the AP that communities must be involved in the response and know Ebola's signs and symptoms.