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Malawi has been undergoing an After-Action Review of the recent Cholera outbreak. The outbreak has been dubbed the worst in the country’s history. Highlighted are some of the key lessons captured to improve public health emergency preparedness and management capacities. This process is in…
Freetown ‒ Between 2014 and 2016, the highly infectious Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone and neighboring countries claimed the lives of over 4000 men, women and children in the country. At the time, the surveillance system, which was partially rolled out in 2003 by the Ministry of…
Freetown ‒ On November 5, 2021, an oil tanker explosion in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown resulted in at least 100 deaths and left hundreds of people seriously injured with burns. The government, through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), immediately called an emergency meeting of the…
Embarking on a ground-breaking journey, Rwanda charges forward in its plans to construct a state-of-the-art laboratory with financial backing by the European Union (EU) and WHO technical support.
