International Medical Corps (Guinea)

International Medical Corps was active in Guinea from February 2015 to March 2021. Guinea’s political landscape has been largely turbulent over the last 50 years, suffering authoritarian rule, coups and a rebel movement along its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia. The West African nation was identified as the likely source of the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. Guinea had more than 3,800 suspected, probable and confirmed Ebola cases—some 2,500 of which resulted in death, the highest fatality rate of the three highest transmission countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. International Medical Corps launched a response to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea in February 2015. After 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths, the West Africa Ebola outbreak—the largest and deadliest in history—officially ended in late 2015 when Guinea was finally declared Ebola-free after two years of fighting the virus. International Medical Corps’ current prevention and surveillance activities and long-term behavior change programming aim to maintain a resilient zero Ebola cases.