Table 2 Key comments and concerns raised by health staff and community members within Liberia pertaining to the restart of the NTD programme in a Post-Ebola setting^a

Positive statements

□ County health authorizes contacting NTD team expressing desire for programme restart before EVD crisis had ended.

□ Health workers expressed a desire to staff (when in the field) for the LF/Oncho programmes to resume.

□ Community members asking NTD staff if they had come with the MDA drugs.

□ The Liberian national NTD director express the view that the majority of people in endemic communities want activities to restart as soon as possible.

Voiced concerns

□ Concerns were expressed regarding possible reduced compliance within communities due various factors (mistrust of system, lack of distributors, etc.

□ Parents expressed concern regarding the post-treatment PZQ reactions in children; these reactions were sometimes confused with being the much feared clinical signs of Ebola returning (this was seen during the AFRO SCH mapping activities in July 2015 shortly after new cases of EVD had been reported).