Abstract
In the history of the various (re) emerging diseases, it has been noted that the stigma of people tested positive has been produced. These negative attitudes and behaviors have been observed on all continents. Thus, the objective of this study was to establish a link between health response plans for coronavirus disease (covid 19) and the production of stigma. Indeed, declared a "public health emergency of international concern (USPPI)" by the World Health Organization (2020), covid-19 is characterized by a strong and rapid spread. To reduce this diffusion, health response plans have been implemented and supported by extensive communication campaign. However, in Côte d’Ivoire, the analysis of data from a literature review, interviews with 310 people using an electronic questionnaire and an interview guide with four health officials, showed that the different strategies adopted are fueling and reinforcing the fear of this disease and the death that can result from it. As a result, they have led to attitudes that reject and stigmatize positive people and their loved ones. As a result, like previous emerging diseases, covid-19 has achieved the same result in populations. Thus, we consider that the different strategies for responding to emerging diseases contribute in large part to the production of this social reaction, which is a legitimate response based on the survival instinct buried in each individual.
Highlights
IntroductionC. Nicolle [1] wrote: "so there will be new diseases, it is a fatal fact
When the National Rapid Response Team tried to get in touch with a man who had been in contact with a patient being treated at a hospital in Ouagadougou, he first refused to take the calls, promised to show up for a test and asked that the team only come home at night [...] to some families, each visit requires new negotiations to allow the intervention team to keeping track of contacts or disinfecting the premises [because] we found that the reaction of neighbors to the family every time we came to collect samples created new injuries."
The control of Covid 19 has been a succession of approaches, policies, health responses and partly different social responses
Summary
C. Nicolle [1] wrote: "so there will be new diseases, it is a fatal fact. Nicolle [1] wrote: "so there will be new diseases, it is a fatal fact Another fact, as fatal, is that we will never know how to track them from the start. When we have a sense of these diseases, they will all be formed, adults, one might say". This recall of the author has been observed in recent decades with the emergence of emerging diseases such as HIV/AIDS (in 1981), Ebola disease in West Africa (in 2013) and Central Africa (from 1976 to 2020) 1 and coronavirus disease (covid 19) reported for the first time was in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019. Outbreaks and clusters of the disease have since been observed in Asia, Europe, Australia, the Americas and Africa)"[2]
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