Development of risk reduction behavioral counseling for Ebola virus disease survivors enrolled in the Sierra Leone Ebola Virus Persistence Study, 2015-2016.

• Main Authors: Neetu Abad (Author), Tasneem Malik (Author), Archchun Ariyarajah (Author), Patricia Ongpin (Author), Matthew Hogben (Author), Suzanna L R McDonald (Author), Jaclyn Marrinan (Author), Thomas Massaquoi (Author), Anna Thorson (Author), Elizabeth Ervin (Author), Kyle Bernstein (Author), Christine Ross (Author), William J Liu (Author), Karen Kroeger (Author), Kara N Durski (Author), Nathalie Broutet (Author), Barbara Knust (Author), Gibrilla F Deen (Author), Sierra Leone Ebola Virus Persistence Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>During the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic, the public health community had concerns that sexual transmission of the Ebola virus (EBOV) from EVD survivors was a risk, due to EBOV persistence in body fluids of EVD survivors, particularly semen....