The project’s overall goal is to produce a solid evidence base on which to build a strong public intervention for universal access to healthy food in Senegal.
The Eco-Health Stakeholders workshop was a participatory workshop, which provided equal opportunity to all participants to express their views and to make contributions.
Recent outbreaks of the highly infectious and dangerous Ebola virus in West and Central Africa underscore the importance of rapid diagnostics and surveillance infrastructure, evidence-driven health communications and community engagement activitie
In the case of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa which claimed over 11,000 lives, the virus propagated faster than reliable data. Local journalists faced an unprecedented epidemic and a shortage of credible information.