Health in Sierra Leone
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BOTSWANA, 2017/07/29
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has commended the African region for making significant evolution in malaria control in the last five years.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said malaria incidence and mortality rates had declined by 42 % and 66 % respectively between 2000 and 2015.
Moeti made the commendation in Kigali, Rwanda, while speaking at the Initial Africa Health Forum, launched by WHO, Africa and the Government of Rwanda.
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BOTSWANA, 2017/07/16
You can meet the majority interesting people at conferences. If you can make your way through the sea of people to get to them. The initial Africa Health Forum organised by the World Health Organisation African region was no different - hundreds and hundreds of enthusiastic participants filling the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda, determined to find their way to universal healthcare (UHC) on the continent.
The forum promised to examine WHO AFRO's vision for health and development across the continent, explore concrete ways for partners to contribute to the work of the organization, meet the challenges that young people face, and provide a platform to talk about innovative strategies for the public health challenges that Africa just can't seem to shake.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/07/20
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that despite successes chalked in the fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a lot additional needed to be done particularly in Africa.
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Anthony Lake, revealed that adolescents were generally dying of AIDS at an alarming rate and that the disease remained the leading cause of death in Africa.
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GUINEA, 2016/01/15
It's been 42 days since Liberia's last Ebola patient tested negative. That means an end to the current Ebola crisis, at least for presently. The epidemic started in December 2013 and over 28,500 cases were recorded, with the epicenters in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. This was the biggest Ebola outbreak to date. This is what Ebola experts inclunding residents of three nations identified as the lessons learnt.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally declared all of West Africa Ebola free. The two-year-long outbreak left 11,300 people dead and many children orphaned. So, did we learn something from it?
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SIERRA LEONE, 2015/11/06
A year and a half next the Ebola outbreak began there is at last good news for Sierra Leone.
On Saturday it is expected the country will reach 42 days since the last recorded case, meaning it will be officially declared Ebola free.
A lot of of the almost 4,000 Sierra Leoneans killed by Ebola were medical personnel, says the World Health Organization. The small West African country suffered the majority cases and healthcare has "been extremely compromised with a disproportionate number of workers dying", according to a statement on the United Nations' ReliefWeb site.
While rebuilding efforts will no doubt focus on doctors, supplies and facilities, experiences during the epidemic indicate that resuscitating Sierra Leone's moribund health system will be as much a cultural endeavour as it is a medical one.
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CHINA, 2015/09/29
China is drawing up a plan to help Sierra Leone and two other Ebola-inflicted African nations with economic and social reconstruction and mutually beneficial cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Sunday.
During his conference with Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma in New York, Xi said relations between their two nations are a real testimony to the phrase "a friend in need is a friend indeed."
Next the Ebola epidemic broke out in Sierra Leone last year, China instantly responded to President Koroma's call, sending emergency medical support and playing a leading and exemplary role for the international community, the president recalled.
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BOTSWANA, 2015/09/22
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60 % since 2000, but the ancient killer remains an acute public health problem with 15 nations mainly in sub-Saharan Africa accounting for some 80 % of cases and deaths globally, according to a new United Nations statement released today.
“World malaria control is one of the great public health success stories of the completed 15 years,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO). “It’s a sign that our strategies are on target, and that we can beat this ancient killer, which still claims hundreds of thousands of lives, mostly children, each year.”
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BENIN, 2015/09/13
The United Nations health agency's appropriate envoy on Ebola response today said the outbreak in West Africa has a "very nasty sting in its tail," but projected that the goal of zero transmission in the human people remains "very possible within 2015."
Dr. Bruce Aylward, Appropriate Representative on Ebola Response for the World Health Organization (WHO), made those remarks at a press conference in Geneva, following his return from the "hot spots" of the epidemic in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
He said that despite the "ferocious rainy season" in West Africa, the number of Ebola cases has remained in the single digits for six consecutive weeks in Guinea and Sierra Leone. In addition, there are only three active chains of transmission in those nations, a development he described as a "major milestone in all three nations [Liberia being the third] in the march towards zero" cases.
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SIERRA LEONE, 2015/09/12
Prior to the recent Ebla outbreak in West Africa, Sierra Leone’s economy was the fastest growing in sub-Saharan Africa. with a dynamic president whose passion was to implement initial an Schedule for Change, and subsequently an Schedule for Prosperity, the country became the bastion of economic prosperity in the region as major investment companies rallied to take on the abundant natural resources that manufacturers were scrambling for across the world.
From China to the UK, fortune 500 companies were astonished to see excellence in economic and political governance take center stage as Sierra Leone restructured its enterprise sector to facilitate easy access to doing business with most red tape cut and a favourable business environment installed to attract all those who wanted to tap into the vast mineral and agricultural potential the country has to offer.
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SIERRA LEONE, 2015/08/27
President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday told Sierra Leoneans that the country will start counting 42 days today next the last Ebola patient was discharged at the Mateneh Ebola Treatment Centre, run by the International Medical Corps.
The President was speaking at a ceremony to mark the discharge of Adama Sankoh from Massesebeh village in the Tonkolili District, at the Mateneh Ebola Treatment Centre, which brought together stakeholders from government, international donors and local dignitaries.
While delivering his keynote address, President Koroma said Madam Sankoh was the last remaining patient nationwide, which marks the beginning of the end of the Ebola virus in the country, noting that the country will today start the countdown to end the epidemic.
He cautioned though that the outbreak has not from presently on been brought to an end.
