Ms Sinéad O'Reilly:

Education is something on which GOAL is working. We are working, for example, with police officers and the military, training them around isolation and how to manage an ebola case. We can build treatment centres until every person is infected, but that alone will not solve ebola. We also need to look at door-to-door work with community members, individuals and community leaders about how to change attitudes and beliefs around ebola, and that is something we are trying to work on.
It needs both. The health system is being destroyed in Liberia and Sierra Leone because the health system is trying to deal with ebola. We almost need to take the treatment of ebola away from the health system, encourage the health centres to keep functional as much as they can and treat the infectious diseases such as malaria and diarrhoealdisease, and in the meantime work on changing community behaviours around ebola.