With
the deadly disease having reportedly claimed the lives of at least 3,229 people
across countries like Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, it has been
revealed that 75 per cent of people who have died as a result of the Ebola
virus are women.
According
to reports from the Ministry of Health in Liberia, women account for about 75
per cent of the Ebola deaths the country has recorded so far.
In
recent interview with Washington Post, Liberia’s minister for Gender and
Development, Julia Duncan-Cassell, confirmed the data.
‘Women
are the caregivers — if a kid is sick, they say, ‘Go to your mom.’
‘The cross-border trade women go to Guinea and Sierra Leone
for the weekly markets, [and] they are also the caregivers. Most of the time
when there is a death in the family, it’s the woman who prepares the funeral,
usually an aunt or older female relative.’
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