Confronting the Gender Impact of Ebola virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone

Nearly a year into the Ebola crisis ravaging West Africa, the deadly disease’s knock-on effects are huge. Ebola has caused many deaths, stifled growth rates, reversed recent socioeconomic gains, aggravated poverty and food insecurity, and destroyed livelihoods. Buried in the aggregated impact is the plight of Ebola’s voiceless victims and agents of change—women and children.The current EVD is the most complex, longest-lasting, and largest outbreak ever.