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Following a brutal 11-year war that ended in January 2002, the country has been unsuccessful at building a sufficiently resourced, robust, and anticipatory public health and medical care infrastructure. Consequently, Sierra Leone suffers from high levels of poverty, infant mortality, and limited access to safe drinking water, as well as morbidity from malnutrition, diarrheal diseases, hepatitis A, cholera, and typhoid fever. Large international NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders have attempted to fill the void left by fragile and fragmented government health services but have been overwhelmed and saturated by the continual spread of Ebola virus disease and growing numbers of cases and deaths. Smaller NGOs endeavored to assist during this crisis as well. One of them, Caritas, has actively sought public health knowledge and has applied public health principles to reduce and contain Ebola virus disease transmission. The Ebola outbreak illuminates the importance of building basic public health capabilities within the core competences of NGOs.(<jats:italic>Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness<\/jats:italic>. 2015;9:554\u2013557)<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/dmp.2015.96","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,2]],"date-time":"2015-09-02T06:21:31Z","timestamp":1441174891000},"page":"554-557","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Rising to the Challenge: The Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone and How Insights Into One Nongovernmental Organization\u2019s Response Can Inform Future Core Competencies"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Elin A.","family":"Gursky","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1935789315000968_ref22","unstructured":"CDC and Texas Health Department confirm first Ebola case diagnosed in the U.S. [press release]. 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