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Jean Nachega

Jean Nachega

Physician

Aug 5, 2026

3:49
How can trust in public health institutions be built and sustained, particularly in settings that are characterized by insecurity and displacement?
3:58
So this is a really challenging point.
4:00
As we witnessed during this ongoing outbreak, early on, treatment centers been, there have been some experience of physical violence and some treatment center being put on fire.
4:12
So basically, the community, there is a really critical need of risk communication and community engagement early on.
4:20
Obviously, everything happened so suddenly, so maybe that kind of, uh, engagement of the community did not have time to take really, uh, place.
4:30
But isolation is epidemiological essential because it interrupt transmission, isolating cases.
4:37
But we sometime discuss it as something merely a technical intervention.
5:34
Given the lack of approved vaccines and therapeutic agents, what steps do you think are gonna be necessary to control the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak now?

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