COVID-19 is currently dominating the global health world, causing widespread social, economic and medical fallout across the globe, including in wealthy countries. Meanwhile, however, the health challenges facing the worlds poorest and most regions continue. Masanga is a small mining village in the middle of the Sierra Leonean rainforest. Over the last 10 years Masanga has had to endure not only multiple more cholera outbreaks but an Ebola pandemic and now COVID. The impact of COVID on life in the poorest parts of the world might not, though, be quite what you expect: the environment and demographics mean that the pandemic is playing out quite differently to high income countries. In fact, could the rich world's focus on COVID be pulling funding away from even more serious illnesses that have plagued the global south for decades already? Does the rich world have something to learn from the way places like Masanga adapted to manage the Ebola epidemic? With us to discuss all that and more is Dr Erik Wehrens, a Dutch Medical Doctor specialised in Global Health and Tropical Medicine and currently the program coordinator of the CapaCare Surgical training program in Sierra Leone, and Mohamed Kallon Manseray is a 34 old Community Health Officer working in Masanga Hospital, Sierra Leone currently pursuing a bachelor in Public Health at the university of Makeni. For more information about Masanga Hospital please visit: http://masangahospital.org For information on CapaCare and how to donate, please visit: http://capacare.org