A man looks on as members of a burial team prepare to collect the body of his next door neighbor who is thought to have died from the virus. © Tommy Trenchard
Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, seen from the air during a food drop to Ebola-affected areas. © Tommy Trenchard
A family grieves as the body of Jonathan Amara is removed by an Ebola burial team in Freetown. © Tommy Trenchard
Men in the village of Komende Luyama, Sierra Leone stand by the forest grave of a woman who died of Ebola. Off camera, another person is being laid to rest. © Tommy Trenchard
A Red Cross burial team prepares to enter the house of a woman suspected to have died of Ebola in the village of Pendembu, Sierra Leone. © Tommy Trenchard
A member of a Red Cross burial team takes a swab sample from a suspected Ebola victim in Pendembu. © Tommy Trenchard
Isatu Tarawalie died of Ebola in September, in the village of Yeli Sanda, Sierra Leone. Since then, her room has unused by the remaining family members as they are afraid of catching the disease. © Tommy Trenchard
Dolls lie beside the grave of an Ebola victim in the King Tom Cemetery in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. © Tommy Trenchard
Alhaji Abbah's room has been left untouched since his death from Ebola over a month ago. The village of Njala Giema is the worst hit in the country, with nearly one in ten succumbing to the disease. © Tommy Trenchard
The room of an Ebola survivor, who was too afraid to go back home even after surviving the disease. © Tommy Trenchard
Members of a burial team disinfect each other after removing the body of a suspected Ebola victim in the village of Pendembu. © Tommy Trenchard
By August, the situation in the Liberian capital of Monrovia was becoming dire. Government attempts to quarantine the West Point slum led to rioting and the death of the 15 year old Shackie Kamara. Shackie was shot in the legs by security forces during the unrest. © Tommy Trenchard
Members of a Red Cross burial team disinfect each other after burying an Ebola victim in Makeni. © Tommy Trenchard
In Kenema, Sierra Leone, the body of a young woman is sprayed down with chlorine after she died in an Ebola holding center. © Tommy Trenchard
Children in the Ebola afflicted neighborhood of West Point play with kites on the evening before a quarantine came into effect. © Tommy Trenchard
A riot policeman gestures during violence in West Point slum in Monrovia. Residents rioted after a quarantine was imposed overnight. © Tommy Trenchard
A burial team prepares to enter the house of a woman who died of Ebola in Kissi Town, Sierra Leone. While the disease has slowed down in the east of the country, it continues to rage in the north and west. © Tommy Trenchard
Friends and family look on as the body of Kadiatu Turay is carried away by a burial team. She died on the floor of her bedroom in Kissi Town. © Tommy Trenchard
Members of a burial team travel to the village of Komende Luyama after receiving an alert. © Tommy Trenchard
British troops onboard Merlin helicopters drop food to villagers on the Turtle Islands in southern Sierra Leone. By December, millions of people were either under quarantine or dependent on food aid. © Tommy Trenchard
A British officer stands on board the flight deck of the RFA Argus, which has been shipping supplies across Sierra Leone to help with the Ebola response. © Tommy Trenchard
A child runs through an empty school yard in Kissi Town. As the virus continues to rage, normal life remains suspended and education has been put on indefinite hold. © Tommy Trenchard
A cleaner mops a corridor in Redemption Hospital, where Shackie Kamara died without receiving treatment the day after being shot in the legs. The hospital was abandoned during the Ebola crisis after staff became infected. © Tommy Trenchard
The body of Ebola victim Rebecca Crowther is laid to rest in Freetown's King Tom cemetery. © Tommy Trenchard
Messi Boa, an Ebola orphan, stands outside her home in the village of Njala Ngiema, Sierra Leone. Her parents and grandmother died during a wave of infections in the village. © Tommy Trenchard
An army pastor oversees Ebola burials at Freetown's King Tom cemetery. © Tommy Trenchard
When Guinea reported its first few cases of Ebola in March, 2014 few took it seriously. Nine months later, the outbreak has infected over 17,000 people and sent shock waves around the world, undermining development gains won painstakingly over the last decade.
