Fighting Ebola
Sierra Leone, neighbouring Guinea and Liberia are at the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak of Ebola. Rates of infection are rising fastest in Sierra Leone, a country with nearly half the total Ebola cases.
Its government has launched a major operation to contain the epidemic, where the public health infrastructure is flimsy and poverty widespread as in other West African countries.
Ebola survivor Alimamy Kanu poses for a picture in the Devil Hole neighbourhood just outside Freetown.
A girl waits for a helicopter to take off in the town of Koidu.
A boy holds on to a plant as a United Nations helicopter takes off.
Health workers escort nine-year-old Maraila, a suspected Ebola victim, to an ambulance.
A health worker checks the temperature of a girl at the entrance to a Red Cross facility.
A woman stands next a patient at the maternity ward in the government hospital in Koidu.
A health worker walks past a woman holding a baby at the maternity ward in the government hospital in Koidu. Health workers at the hospital are in full protective gear as part of increased precautions since the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
A member of the clergy reads from the Bible to Ebola patients in the recovery wing of the Hastings Ebola treatment centre in a neighbourhood in Freetown.
A health worker demonstrates putting on protective gear in a Red Cross facility.
British health worker Michelle Gundry puts on protective gear before entering a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility.
A health worker wearing protective gear stands outside a quarantine zone.
Patients eat in the recovery wing of the Hastings Ebola treatment centre.
Health workers push a gurney with a dead body at a Red Cross facility.
A grave digger walks past fresh graves at a cemetery in Freetown.
A grave digger looks at freshly dug graves for Ebola victims at a cemetery.
A grave digger watches as health workers carry the body of an Ebola victim for burial.
The body of a suspected Ebola victim awaits burial in a grave.
