Aminata Kobie is a health promotion officer in WHO Sierra Leone Country Office. When the first Ebola cases began to appear in May 2014 in Sierra Leone, Aminata travelled the country educating health workers and communities about the virus. As the outbreak spread throughout the country, Aminata spent months at a time educating her fellow Sierra Leoneans and visiting resistant communities where Ebola cases continued to occur.
"As a Health Promotion Officer, I work across all areas of health and mainly support the Ministry of Health. When we heard about the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, we immediately took action. The first thing we did was meeting with the Ministry of Health and partners to develop communications materials on how people could protect them from Ebola.

A health promotion colleague from WHO Uganda came to support us, as Uganda has previous experience with Ebola. We met with health workers and taught them about the signs and symptoms of Ebola virus disease and how transmission can be prevented. We told them to be cautious of anybody with the signs of Ebola. Every opportunity we had was used to educate the public about the disease. Even with World Malaria Day, we used this as an opportunity to teach the public about Ebola.