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Representatives from the Government of Sierra Leone, WHO, SLAES, partners and the hospital attended the ceremony at Lungi

Ebola persistence study site handed over to Lungi Hospital

FREETOWN, 13 January 2017 --- One of the two sites used in the…

Mothers Groups Have Been Trained as Peer Educators on Nutrition

Thousands reached through community health engagement in Sierra Leone

New data released today by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and…

Photo credit: WHO/S.Beckley-Lines

Reaching communities with lifesaving vaccines

Sierra Leone has just recently wrapped up its final Maternal and…

World Malaria Report 2016

Malaria control vastly improves in Sierra Leone, but collective action needed to ‘tap’ the disease

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, 13 December 2016 - The World Health…

WHO/Saffea Gborie

Tackling malaria in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone has one of the highest burdens of malaria in the world.…

Categories of staff to be trained

Improving access to mental health services in Sierra Leone

Mental health service delivery remains challenging in Sierra Leone…

A cross section of families affected by the 2015 flooding in Freetown

Sierra Leone health sector better prepared against seasonal flooding

Flooding from torrential rainfall is the most common form of natural…

A child receiving Vitamin A supplementation during the campaign

Maternal and Child Health Week Campaign Brings Vaccines to 1.5 Million Children

Five days of Immunization Activities to deliver integrated maternal…

WHO and partners at the launch of the report in Freetown Sierra Leone

Mental Health Funding and the SDGs: What now & who pays? Report Launched in Sierra Leone

A global report titled “Mental Health Funding and the SDGs: What now…

Dr Anders Nordström WHO Representative to Sierra Leone, moderating one of the sessions during the summit

High level international conference on health workforce ends in Sierra Leone

In order to address some of the staffing challenges that affect…