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Sierra Leone

Government Press Statement: Confirmation of EVD Death in Sierra Leone – 16 January 2016

An integrated nationwide Maternal and Child Health Week campaign (MCHW) is underway in Sierra Leone aimed at restoring the delivery of essential health services which were interrupted during the Ebola outbreak. The campaign locally known as “Mammy and Pikin Wellbodi Week” is being conducted from 26-30 November with the focus of reaching an estimated 1.3 million children under 5 years with vitamin A supplementation and deworming with Albendazole. It also provides opportunity to reach children 0-23 months tha

First large scale maternal and child health campaign underway after end of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

this child missed some of the routine vaccines. she was traced by a team of vaccinators by assessing her vaccination card and given the missed vaccines

Revitalising National Immunisation services with routine and supplementary vaccination campaigns

Statement on the end of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

WHO commends Sierra Leone for stopping Ebola virus transmission

Samuel Eto’o training with some of the children at the Football academy in Freetown

“FIFA 11 for Health” programme launched in Sierra Leone to promote healthy lifestyles among young people

Preliminary study finds that Ebola virus fragments can persist in the semen of some survivors for at least nine months

Ebola contact tracing team at work in the quarantined village, Bombali district, Sierra Leone.

Rapid response to new Ebola infection in Bombali, Sierra Leone