Salome Karwah

Time magazine's 2014 "Person of the Year" with Karwah on the cover.

Salomé Karwah ( – 21 February 2017) was a Liberian nurse who was named co-Person of the Year by Time magazine in 2014 for her efforts to combat the West African Ebola virus epidemic. She appeared on the cover of Time in December 2014 with other health care workers and colleagues working to end the epidemic. Karwah survived ebola herself, before returning to work with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) to help other patients afflicted with the disease. Even before the ebola outbreak, Liberia had one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. She remained at the unit until the end of the ebola epidemic. In the same essay, Karwah reiterated that "if someone has Ebola, it isn’t good to stigmatize them, because you don’t know who is next in line to contract the virus." They accuse the medical staff of providing inadequate care because they were afraid to touch her.