Si la Sierra Leone a enregistré seulement 7 766 cas confirmés de COVID-19 et 125 décès, elle le doit aux leçons durement apprises pendant l’épidémie de maladie à virus Ebola qui a sévi de 2014 à 2016 et a coûté la vie à 4000 personnes.
Lire la suiteSierra Leone today became the second African country, and the fifth globally, to launch a review of its health emergency preparedness and response capacity to identify gaps and reinforce measures against health shocks.
Lire la suiteFreetown, 1 May 2023 ‒The Government of Sierra Leone is this week holding a three-day Universal Health and Preparedness Review high-level meeting in the country’s capital, Freetown. The aim of the Universal Health and…
Lire la suiteBo, 13 February 2023 – The World Health Organization Country Office in Sierra Leone has swiftly responded to a call by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to replenish medical supplies at the Bo Government Regional Hospital following an emergency response by the hospital team to a mass casualty incident that depleted the routine stockpile of medical supplies of the hospital.
Lire la suiteFreetown, 25 January 2023 - The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership, (CoVDP), have today handed over vehicles including motorbikes and computers worth over USD$2.8 million to support Government of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 vaccine deployment. CoVDP is a joint venture of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (Gavi), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Lire la suiteFreetown 21 December 2022 – Sierra Leone has achieved the global World Health Organization (WHO) target of fully vaccinating 70% of the population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022. The milestone places Sierra Leone among just three other countries in the African region to have reached the target. The 70% target was set by global health leaders with a strategy that outlined the priority actions needed from the different actors to achieve the targets.
Lire la suiteLiving with mental illness has been a harrowing ordeal for Safiatu Kondeh. The 34-year-old, who lives in Kabala, northern Sierra Leone, with her mother and two children, has had to endure conditions almost worse than the disease.
Lire la suiteAn age-old social belief that “what goes on under the cloth should remain under the cloth” is killing women in Sierra Leone.
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