Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
(26 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beni, DR Congo – 25 August 2026
1. Various of healthcare workers and treatment center staff attending a briefing at the Ebola treatment center
2. Mid of Papy Kasereka, former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Papy Kasereka, analyst and former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak:
"I believe that to defeat an epidemic, we must place communities at the heart of epidemic management. Communities are not mere spectators watching the epidemic spread or claiming lives. We must make communities our allies. We must reach out to them. We must work with them, and that, I believe, is what is missing."
4. Wide of Ebola treatment center
5. Various of healthcare workers in the treatment center
6. Various of Kasereka
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Papy Kasereka, analyst and former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak:
"It is therefore important to open the doors of the Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs) to community members and community leaders, so that those who have recovered can communicate directly with the communities. This will help demystify the management of the ETCs. We must not continue to treat ETCs as something mysterious. We need to demystify the operations of the ETCs by giving community leaders the opportunity to visit it and see what is happening."
8. Various of exterior of Ebola treatment center (ETC)
9. Mid of Doctors Without Borders poster
10. Various of Kasereka
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Papy Kasereka, analyst and former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak:
"Communities trust the people they know—people who are deeply rooted in their communities. If you do something for the communities without involving them, the communities feel as though you're doing it for yourself. And that's what needs to change in management style."
12. Wide of people entering the ETC
13. Various of Ebola treatment rooms
14. Ebola survivor receiving their certificate
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Tosalisana, chief medical officer of the Beni Health Zone:
"It is not by attacking the Ebola response teams that they (the young people) are preparing for their future; on the contrary, they are destroying their future by doing so. So if there is resistance, we must remind these young people—who are most often behind these protests—that the Ebola response teams are there to protect the health of the entire population."
16. Mid of an Ebola survivor being greeted by health care workers and ETC staff
STORYLINE:
As the Ebola outbreak continues to spread in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, calls are growing for better coordination of the Ebola response with local communities and community leaders.
On Tuesday, August 25, in Beni, Papy Kasereka, a former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak and now an analyst, spoke about weaknesses in the current Ebola response.
“We must not continue to treat ETCs as something mysterious. We need to demystify the operations of the ETCs by giving community leaders the opportunity to visit it and see what is happening”, said Kasereka.
“It is therefore important to open the doors of the Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs) to community members and community leaders, so that those who have recovered can communicate directly with the communities. This will help demystify the management of the ETCs,” he added.
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(26 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beni, DR Congo – 25 August 2026
1. Various of healthcare workers and treatment center staff attending a briefing at the Ebola treatment center
2. Mid of Papy Kasereka, former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Papy Kasereka, analyst and former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak:
"I believe that to defeat an epidemic, we must place communities at the heart of epidemic management. Communities are not mere spectators watching the epidemic spread or claiming lives. We must make communities our allies. We must reach out to them. We must work with them, and that, I believe, is what is missing."
4. Wide of Ebola treatment center
5. Various of healthcare workers in the treatment center
6. Various of Kasereka
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Papy Kasereka, analyst and former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak:
"It is therefore important to open the doors of the Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs) to community members and community leaders, so that those who have recovered can communicate directly with the communities. This will help demystify the management of the ETCs. We must not continue to treat ETCs as something mysterious. We need to demystify the operations of the ETCs by giving community leaders the opportunity to visit it and see what is happening."
8. Various of exterior of Ebola treatment center (ETC)
9. Mid of Doctors Without Borders poster
10. Various of Kasereka
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Papy Kasereka, analyst and former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak:
"Communities trust the people they know—people who are deeply rooted in their communities. If you do something for the communities without involving them, the communities feel as though you're doing it for yourself. And that's what needs to change in management style."
12. Wide of people entering the ETC
13. Various of Ebola treatment rooms
14. Ebola survivor receiving their certificate
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Tosalisana, chief medical officer of the Beni Health Zone:
"It is not by attacking the Ebola response teams that they (the young people) are preparing for their future; on the contrary, they are destroying their future by doing so. So if there is resistance, we must remind these young people—who are most often behind these protests—that the Ebola response teams are there to protect the health of the entire population."
16. Mid of an Ebola survivor being greeted by health care workers and ETC staff
STORYLINE:
As the Ebola outbreak continues to spread in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, calls are growing for better coordination of the Ebola response with local communities and community leaders.
On Tuesday, August 25, in Beni, Papy Kasereka, a former team leader for risk communication and community engagement during the 10th Ebola outbreak and now an analyst, spoke about weaknesses in the current Ebola response.
“We must not continue to treat ETCs as something mysterious. We need to demystify the operations of the ETCs by giving community leaders the opportunity to visit it and see what is happening”, said Kasereka.
“It is therefore important to open the doors of the Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs) to community members and community leaders, so that those who have recovered can communicate directly with the communities. This will help demystify the management of the ETCs,” he added.
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