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Stigma and discrimination are neglected silent killers in Africa

In 2014, Salome Karwah was named a Time Magazine Person of the Year for her front line work fighting Ebola in west Africa.

But in February in this year, Karwah died from childbirth complications in Liberia, after hospital staff initially refused to help her due to the stigma that still surrounds the disease.

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