title: Community Care Centre (CCC) as adjunct in the management of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases during outbreaks: experience from Sierra Leone.
abstract: Community Care Centres (CCCs) represent an innovative response to the containment of infection and the care of those infected in the context of an an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of unprecedented scale. This paper describes the implementation of this response in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone in the last quarter of 2014. CCCs were effective in encouraging EVD patients to come forward, thus removing risk of transmission to their families and communities however there is significant scope for improvement in care for patients in the centres if the model is applied in future outbreaks of infectious disease. Changes in lay out of the centres, in staff training and support, in logistics and patient education are recommended.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization (WHO) Inter country Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, Zimbabwe.
authors.forename: Olushayo
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Olu
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cormican
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Kande-Bure
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Kamara
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization (WHO) Inter country Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, Zimbabwe.
authors.forename: Waqar
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Butt
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D012807:Sierra Leone / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Community Care Centre (CCC); Ebola Virus Disease; Sierra Leone