Resources

Assessment of Social Norms and External Factors Affecting Or Influencing the Adoption of Ebola Risk Reduction Behaviors

This report provides a summary of research findings on social norms and external factors that affect or influence the adoption of Ebola prevention behaviors in Kenema District, Sierra Leone. Some of the factors studied included local knowledge of Ebola infection, Ebola prevention measures, and cultural norms, social norms, and practices that influence risk.

Lassa and Ebola Social and Behavior Change Lessons Learned Workshop

This report summarizes a workshop conducted by the STOP Spillover Sierra Leone Country Team to identify lessons learned and promising social and behavior change practices to reduce Lassa virus and Ebola virus spillover risks.

Lassa Social Behavior Change Formative Research Report

This report summarizes research findings on social norms and behaviors that affect or influence Lassa virus spillover risks in Kenema District, Sierra Leone, including local practices, beliefs, and social norms; populations and groups at high risk for Lassa spillover; traditional cultural norms, beliefs, and practices that influence spillover risk; and trusted sources of information.

Media Capacity Building in Sierra Leone

This report describes a three-day training for journalists from national and regional media outlets in Sierra Leone. Sixty journalists participated in the training, which focused on enhancing journalists' capacity to report on zoonotic diseases and the One Health approach.

Wild Meat Biosafety Intervention Final Report

This report presents results from the final three months of implementation of biosafety practices among wild meat traders and processors in the Kingsway Corner Wet Market in Kenema District in Sierra Leone.

Wild Meat Value Chain Study

This report describes a study by the STOP Spillover Sierra Leone Country Team to identify critical control points along the wild meat value chain in Kenema District, social drivers and determinants of wildlife hunting and consumption, and behaviors of value chain actors that may be associated with an increased risk of zoonotic spillover.

Lassa Fever Formative Research Report

This report summarizes formative research on the influencing factors (i.e., the political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors) and social and gender norms that facilitate or impede behavior change related to reducing risk for Lassa virus transmission in Kenema District in Sierra Leone.

Lassa Virus and Ebola Virus Risk Frameworks

This document includes two risk frameworks for Sierra Leone: "Mastomys Rodents Are Infected with Lassa Virus" and "Bushmeat Are Infected with Ebola Virus." Community participation in the development of the risk frameworks was critical for the implementation of targeted interventions.

Wild Meat Market Biosafety Intervention Validation Report

This report summarizes a final validation exercise conducted by the STOP Spillover Sierra Leone Country Team in the Kingsway Corner Market in Kenema District. The exercise focused on identifying key factors influencing the adoption of co-designed risk reduction behaviors by wild meat traders and processors in the market.

Expanding Access to Wastewater Monitoring in Countries with Low Levels of Sanitation Infrastructure: Effectiveness of Active and Passive Wastewater Effluent Sampling in Côte d'Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes active and passive wastewater effluent sampling in three at-risk sites lacking sanitation infrastructure in Côte d'Ivoire.

Efficient Wildlife Carcass Disposal Through the Development of Guidelines, Training, Reporting, and the Use of Biosafety Practices in Côte d'Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, summarizes the STOP Spillover Côte d'Ivoire Country Team's work to develop with stakeholders guidelines for wildlife carcass management, train government personnel in safe wildlife carcass disposal methods, and implement community engagement sessions on the risks associated with wildlife carcass consumption.

A Conceptual Framework for Multisectoral Zoonotic Disease Surveillance Based on Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Côte d’Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the convening of a multisectoral workshop on enhancing zoonotic disease surveillance at human-animal-environment interfaces at risk for spillover of zoonotic pathogens.

Mapping of Areas at High Risk of Zoonotic Pathogen Transmission and Disease Monitoring at the Human-Wildlife Interface in the District des Montagnes in Côte d’Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the use of ArcGIS software to develop maps documenting the dynamics of ecosystem components at human-wildlife interaction zones with the potential for spillover of zoonotic pathogens.

Joint Risk Assessment of Ebola and Lassa Viruses at the Human-Wildlife Interface in the Tonkpi Region District des Montagnes

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, summarizes a workshop that focused on assessing the risk for Ebola and Lassa virus infections in the Tonkpi Region of Côte d'Ivoire.

Introduction of New Tools and Support for Biosafety Practices among Wild Meat Handlers and Processors in Côte d’Ivoire to Prevent Zoonotic Disease Risks

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the STOP Spillover Côte d'Ivoire Country Team's development of  guidelines and protocols for wild meat handling and processing, training in wild meat handling and processing for market and restaurant workers, and distribution of biosafety equipment.

Impact Brief: A Community Dialogue Process to Co-Design Bat Spillover Risk Reduction Interventions

This brief describes community dialogues in Kampot and Battambang provinces that were facilitated by the STOP Spillover Cambodia Country Team. The dialogues aimed to involve key stakeholders, especially those involved in bat guano handling, in understanding baseline risks and practices and co-designing effective interventions.

Impact Brief: App-Based Early Event Detection System for Live Bird Markets

This brief describes an app-based early warning system that enables live bird market workers, cleaners, market committee members, and consumers to report poultry and/or crow mortality and poultry workers' flu-like illnesses using their mobile phones.

Impact Brief: Avian Influenza Virus Risk Reduction Initiatives in Bangladesh: STOP Spillover Workshop Highlights

This brief summarizes a workshop that brought together stakeholders to discuss STOP Spillover activities in Bangladesh, in particular the implementation and evaluation of biosecure single-shop live bird market (LBM) designs, enhancing data and information-sharing platforms, and the development and implementation of an app-based early event detection system for LBMs.

Impact Brief: Community Dialogue and Demonstration-based Education on Zoonotic Diseases and Spillover Risk Reduction in Kang Meas District, Kampong Cham Province

This brief describes a dialogue with community stakeholders to demonstrate safety practices to reduce risks from bat-human contact and to identify and prioritize actions that participants were willing to take to mitigate the risk of viral spillover from bats to humans.

Impact Brief: Creating Sentinel Surveillance Sites in Bat Guano Communities at Risk for Zoonotic Spillover

This brief describes the STOP Spillover Cambodia Country Team's work at sentinel sites in bat-guano-producing communities in Kampong Cham province to assess patient prevalence of severe acute respiratory illness, influenza-like illness, and health-seeking behaviors, and to catalog the types of animals kept near homes.