TOUCH of LOVE

n the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a fatal outbreak of Ebola has taken more than 1600 lives. Each time a new patient is diagnosed with the disease – which spreads through human contact – they’re placed in isolation in a hermetically sealed cell and starved of touch from the outside world. Even doctors don full-body decontamination suits to treat them. But now women such as Joniste Kahambu (above) are changing the script. As survivors of Ebola, who are therefore immune to the disease, they visit nurseries to cuddle and cradle sick children.