{"id":348127,"date":"2025-08-16T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:04:17","slug":"eu-health-task-force-deploys-ecdc-experts-to-sierra-leone-to-support-the-mpox-outbreak-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348127\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Health Task Force deploys ECDC experts to Sierra Leone to support the mpox outbreak response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" zoom=\"zoom\" class=\"img img-rounded img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EUHTF Sierra Leone mpox outbreak.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1278\" alt=\"Group photo EUHTF Sierra Leone mpox outbreak, 2025\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/is_full\/public\/images\/EUHTF%20Sierra%20Leone%20mpox%20outbreak.jpg?itok=LcptKfEO\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This two-week mission comes at a critical time as the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and National Public Health Agency (NPHA) review their three-month Action Plan aiming\u00a0 to contain and end this outbreak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two experts, an epidemiologist and a risk communicator , are working closely\u00a0 with national stakeholders, including the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health, Africa CDC colleagues, and with the support of the EU Delegation in Freetown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The epidemiologist is supporting detailed outbreak investigations and data analysis to generate actionable insights for response\u00a0 strategies. She also contributes to situation analyses to facilitate evidence-based decision-making.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the risk communicator is assisting with the development of culturally tailored public health messaging, supporting knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) studies, and strengthening\u00a0 the capacity at the national and district level.<\/p>\n<p>Working alongside local health professionals, paramount chiefs, district councils, and development partners, the experts are contributing\u00a0 to a coordinated effort to control the outbreak and protect communities across Sierra Leone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This two-week mission comes at a critical time as the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and National Public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-348127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036229786092040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}