Matthew Nyanplu

It has been a great opportunity working with AP during the summer from Liberia. I learned a lot more than I thought I knew about the 2014-2016  Ebola crisis in Liberia through my activities with the Ebola Survivors Network. The situation of Ebola survivors provides a window of opportunity to forecast what the future looks like for persons recovering from covid-19. Ebola survivors in Liberia, and probably everywhere face a myriad of difficulties, health, economic and psychosocial. The fact that in Liberia they are not receiving the requisite care and attention they need, as we learned, compounds their difficulties. My AP Fellowship also provided me the avenue to assess what can be done, and as I have written during the summer, policymakers need to pay attention to survivors of pandemics and epidemics.