ABSTRACT

The first psychosocial procedures are generally directed towards providing support to the sick people and bereaved in the management of bereavement or the reintegration of those who have recovered. The psychosocial teams noticed that the feeling of loneliness generated by the human losses sometimes lead to a risk behavior. The Ebola virus has significant and immediate psychosocial impacts on affected populations, especially the bereaved or the people who recovered; impacts such as bereavement, anxiety, or exclusion. With the social and family point of view, the situation in Zenie, created by the Ebola outbreak, was disastrous. The scale of the epidemic within Zenie, as well as the attitude towards the humanitarian workers regarding the refusal of the villagers to apply prevention measures, led to the stigmatization and rejection of the people of Zenie by the neighboring villages. In fact, the village of Zenie shows the importance of this vigilance initiated by the teams in the psychosocial approach carried out.