Prevention of sexual transmission of Ebola in Liberia through a national semen testing and counselling programme for survivors: an analysis of Ebola virus RNA results and behavioural data.

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Published in Lancet Glob Health on August 30, 2016

Authors

Moses J Soka¹, Mary J Choi², April Baller³, Stephen White⁴, Emerson Rogers¹, Lawrence J Purpura⁵, Nuha Mahmoud³, Christine Wasunna⁴, Moses Massaquoi¹, Neetu Abad⁵, Jomah Kollie³, Straker Dweh⁴, Philip K Bemah¹, Athalia Christie⁵, Victor Ladele³, Oneychachi C Subah⁴, Satish Pillai⁵, Margaret Mugisha³, Jonathan Kpaka⁴, Stephen Kowalewski⁵, Emilio German⁵, Mark Stenger⁵, Stuart Nichol⁵, Ute Ströher⁵, Kristin E Vanderende⁵, Shauna Mettee Zarecki⁵, Hugh Henry W Green⁵, Jeffrey A Bailey⁶, Pierre Rollin⁵, Barbara Marston⁵, Tolbert G Nyenswah¹, Alex Gasasira³, Barbara Knust⁵, Desmond Williams⁵

Author Affiliations

1: Ministry of Health, Monrovia, Liberia.
2: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: whz2@cdc.gov.
3: World Health Organization, Monrovia, Liberia.
4: Worcester, MA, USA.
5: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
6: Academic Consortium Combating Ebola in Liberia, University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Determinants of SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) Persistence After Convalescence | NCT04448145

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