Our work focuses on the social dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform is supporting response partners by mobilising networks of experts and through the production of evidence briefs highlighting key socio-cultural considerations relevant to the control of the disease. Visit our website to find out more.
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It's been a busy couple of months for us here at SSHAP as we've been continuing our work on the social dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as responding to the latest outbreak of Ebola in Guinea.
In April we published our Key Considerations brief mapping the social, political and economic context shaping the outbreak, as well as a summary of the expert advisors virtual Roundtable event that we hosted back in March. Both are now available in French from the same links above.
We're also delighted to announce that last week our researchers collectively had three articles published in BMJ journals, covering both COVID-19 and Ebola. See below for more details.
And last but not least our latest Evidence Reviews synthesise community perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa and South Africa.
All of these resources are available from the links below, which take you to the main resource page. On these pages you will also find PDFs of our briefs translated into a range of languages.
We continue to produce new translations for some of our older resources so be sure to check our last newsletter and Twitter feed for updates.
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Key Considerations: 2021 Outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, the Context of N’Zérékoré
This brief summarises key considerations about the social, political and economic context shaping the outbreak of Ebola in the N’Zérékoré prefecture, Guinea, as of March 2021.
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SSHAP Roundtable: 2021 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
SSHAP convened a virtual roundtable of expert advisors on Friday 12 March 2021 to discuss the outbreak of Ebola in Guinea declared on 14 February 2021. Vaccination was launched on 23 February, and as of 17 March, 3,492 people had been vaccinated.
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Latest briefings and infographics
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Data Synthesis: COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in Africa: Social and Behavioural Science Data, March 2020 – March 2021
This synthesis brings together data related to public perceptions about COVID-19 vaccines collected between March 2020 and March 2021 in 22 countries in Africa.
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Rapid Review: Perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa
This review syntheses community perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa to inform RCCE strategies and policies and provides examples of successful practice. It draws on multiple secondary data sources: scientific literature, qualitative and quantitative studies, grey literature, and mainstream and social media.
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COVID-19 response: mitigating negative impacts on other areas of health
This analysis highlights the drivers and evidence of the negative impact of 'vertical’ responses focused primarily on preventing and containing COVID-19.
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One size does not fit all: adapt and localise for effective, proportionate and equitable responses to COVID-19 in Africa
This paper presents a preliminary typology of important domains for localisation of public health and social measures, with a focus on interventions to protect people who are vulnerable—socially, economically, politically and also biologically.
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Spillover or endemic? Reconsidering the origins of Ebola virus disease outbreaks by revisiting local accounts in light of new evidence from Guinea
This paper reconsiders local accounts from the 2013–2016 West African EVD epidemic in light of new evidence that the 2021 Guinea outbreak originated in viral resurgence from a persistently infected survivor.
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