Four-month-old Josephine is the youngest Ebola surviver that USAID partner International Medical Corps has treated thus far in their fight against Ebola in West Africa. Here is her survival story.
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U.S. Opens New Ebola Clinic in Liberia
Building Ebola Treatment Units to Foster Hope, Healing in Liberia
![Tejanie Golafaley, an Ebola survivor, saw it as his personal mission to work at the USAID-supported Ebola treatment unit in Tubmanburg. “I want to explain my story to patients [so that] they can start to take courage.” / Carol Han, USAID/OFDA](https://blog.usaid.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Tejanie-Golofaley-Tubmanburg-ETU-Ebola-survivor.-Photo-courtesy-Carol-Han-USAID-OFDA.jpg)
In the Bomi Hills northwest of Monrovia, in an area that used to be the region’s iron and diamond mining center, it’s hard to miss the new “precious resource” that has become critical to Liberia’s fight against Ebola. Four stark white tents gleam in the sun, the most prominent part of the new Ebola treatment unit (ETU) in Tubmanburg.
Andrew Hill: “There’s no standard blueprint for an Ebola treatment unit.”
This is the second blog in our Profiles in Courage series in which photojournalist Morgana Wingard compiles snapshots and sound bites from our USAID and Disaster Assistance Response Team staff on the front lines of the Ebola response. Here she talks to U.S. Army Civil Engineer, Andrew Hill who creates the blueprints for life-saving Ebola treatment units.
