Back to class at one Liberian school after a seven-month break. The Ebola epidemic had hidden costs, too, and now the disease appears to be on the wane with no new infections the tens of thousands of missed hours of study have to be made up. Four weeks behind Guinea and six after Sierra Leone, the pupils are back.

These three countries were at the epicenter of an epidemic that infected 23,500 people starting at the end of 2013, killing 9,380 of them says the latest report from the WHO.

Musa Pabai survived and this is the first time he has been home since leaving hospital last November. He went into voluntary exile to protect his wife, because being cured is not the end of it.

“The semen is still infected for 90 days after the onset of the symptoms. In that case we give every male survivor who leaves our structure condoms for that period, because we think it’s very important that when they have sex they have protected sex,” says Medical Coordinator Leen Verhenne.

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