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Social distancing in indigenous health-seeking knowledge for epidemic control used in Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak
(Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), 2019)
In 2007 an epidemic broke out in Bundibugyo, natives quickly created barriers and boundaries based on their ethnic differences and village locations in the mountain ridges deterring the movement and mixing of infected ...
The constructions of Ebola and the struggle against the epidemic in Bundibugyo District
(Makerere University, 2021-03)
There was an Ebola outbreak in Western Uganda in the Bundibugyo. The outbreak which started in 2007, never received biomedical response for three months. However, as the national and international response teams arrived ...
Ebola shapes society: No partner, no family, no friends
(Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2019)
Ebola is examined as a Critical Event that shaped the communities in Bundibugyo district. The local framing of the ebola epidemic 2007-8 as a curse to the particular ethnic groups affected the social networks and individual ...