The polio programme has a long history of innovating in the face of challenges. From Direct Detection to Geographic Information Systems, technology supports the fight against polio in the African Region. @WHOAFRO teams support countries building capacity and deploying tools to their full…
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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…
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…
