In late April 2024, the Government of Sierra Leone, with support from WHO and other partners, launched its first-ever malaria vaccination campaign. The introduction of 550,000 doses of the RTS,S malaria vaccine marks a pivotal moment in the fight against malaria in the country. Sierra Leone has one of the highest malaria burdens in the […]
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About 90% of pharmacies in Liberia are selling stolen medicine donated by aid organisations, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) says. USAID Mission Director Jim Wright at the weekend said such “acts of fraud” prevented Liberians from receiving donated essential medicines. “That is unacceptable. That means that medicine is only available to patients that
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Despite the important advances in recent decades in terms of child mortality – the global rate has decreased by 51% since 2000 –, still today a child dies every 6 seconds before reaching the age of five, or in other words, 4, 9 million every year. Most of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan African countries. Given
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A pan-African initiative supporting science granting councils has boosted Sierra Leone’s National Science, Technology and Innovation Council, helping it gain international recognition and relevance, the Sierra Leonean science council chair has said. Jonas Redwood-Sawyerr, chair of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Technical and Higher Education’s National Science, Technology and Innovation Council (NSTIC) – a member council of the
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A delegation of seven executive directors from the African Development Bank Group has visited a key water revamping project site in Sierra Leone designed to transform water management and sanitation in Freetown, the capital city and beyond. The directors, on a five-day consultation mission to strengthen the Bank’s partnership, visited project sites of the Freetown WASH
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With a new $673,000 grant from The Mercury Project, a consortium of scientists supporting public health guidance, a vaccine delivery initiative co-led by the School of Management’s Professor Mushfiq Mobarak is expanding in rural Sierra Leone, a small but resilient country in West Africa. The initiative is a collaborative effort between Mobarak and two European academics
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Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, has launched the new World Bank report in Freetown titled: “Sierra Leone Human Capital Review: Maximizing Human Potential for Resilience and Inclusive Development”, welcoming its findings that Sierra Leone has made commendable strides in improving human capital development. The report also notes that the government has
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Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone has challenged citizens of the West African nation to treat their abuse of the environment as an “ecological sin”, which must be confessed. In his Sunday, March 17 homily during the Lenten Pilgrimage of his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Tamba Charles expressed concern that people are
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Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, has highlighted improvement in the country’s surgical volume rates when he addressed the Conference of the West African College of Surgeons, a four-day gathering of over 500 surgeons, some of whom will perform free surgeries and train local health workers from across the country. The small
Today, Kadiatu is wearing a stunning blue dress as she goes about her business. The hospital is big and clean, with the warmth of wood furniture and big, covered porch areas in the front and back. It has examination rooms and a delivery room that, while spare, are welcome sights for people seeking treatment. This
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