00:01Ebola is spreading in eastern DR Congo and fear and mistrust are putting response efforts at risk.
00:09Communities are facing their first Ebola outbreak in years.
00:13Health workers say better coordination, stronger communication and local leaders are at the heart of the response.
00:22I believe that to defeat an epidemic, we must place communities at the heart of epidemic management.
00:29Communities are not mere spectators watching the epidemic spread or claiming lives.
00:34We must make communities our allies, we must reach out to them, we must work with them and that, I
00:40believe, is what is missing.
00:41The outbreak is accelerating fast, 5,514 cases and 2,642 deaths.
00:49Health workers say treatment centres are critical to the fight.
00:54We must not continue to treat treatment centres as something mysterious.
00:58We need to demystify the operations of the centres by giving community leaders the opportunity to visit them and see
01:04what's happening.
01:06The United Nations says more than 260 attacks on health workers have been recorded in just six months.
01:12Eight health workers have been killed and the danger is escalating.
01:20It's not by attacking the Ebola response teams that the young people are preparing for their future.
01:27On the contrary, they are destroying the future by doing so.
01:30So if there is resistance, we must remind these young people, who are most often behind these protests,
01:37that the Ebola response teams are there to protect the health of the entire population.
01:43At this stage, deaths are seven times higher than during the deadly 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak,
01:51which claimed more than 11,000 lives.
