Marie Claire Tchecola is a nurse from Guinea. She got Ebola, but she lived^[source?]. She is an activist who teaches about disease.^[1] In 2015, the U.S. State Department gave Tchecola the International Women of Courage Award.^[2][3]

Tchecola is from a small village in Guinea, near Senegal. She was the first woman in her family to get an education. She studied to be a nurse. She worked as a nurse at Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea. In July 2014, she worked with a very sick patient. She got Ebola from that patient. She went to a center for treatment. She got better.^[4]

After Tchecola got well, she went back to her job as a nurse at Donka Hospital. She had more problems. She lost her housing, because her landlord did not understand Ebola.^[2][5]

• Marie Claire Tchecola - I Survived Ebola

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