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  • Ebola under control – President Ernest Koroma

    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.

  • Liberia Ebola-Free Again

    LIBERIA, 2015/09/08 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared Liberia Ebola-free next going 42 days without recording any confirmed case of the disease since the last case tested negative in a laboratory. Liberia presently enters a 90-day period of vigilance and surveillance to curb a possible resurgence. Barely two months following the end of a initial wave of Ebola, which killed some 4,800 people, the disease resurged on June 29 next the corpse of a 17-year-old boy tested positive at the Roberts International Airport highway community of Nedowein in Margibi County.

  • President Koroma, the country has lost over 3,586 lives during the outbreak

    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.

  • Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention We Are One Step Closer To Eradicating Malaria In The Sahel

    AFRICA, 2015/08/27 Malaria Consortium's Programme Manager for the Burkina Faso country office, Dr. Victor Nana, discusses the recent SMC distributions in Burkina Faso, citing the challenges faced and highlighting the importance of implementing this intervention at scale. What is SMC? SMC is a strategy endorsed by the World Health Organisation to prevent malaria in children aged three to 59 months living in the Sahel. In this region, additional than 60% of malaria cases occur during the rainy season, which often lasts for approximately four months. The SMC intervention consists of giving preventive malaria treatments (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine, SP+AQ) to children each month of the rainy season. Each month there are three doses that are given over three days. The initial is supervised and administered by a Community Health Worker (CHW) and the following two doses are given by parents on the subsequent days.

  • Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease.

    GUINEA, 2015/08/27 Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease. It's marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids. The nations of Sierra Leone and Guinea on Africa's West Coast have been particularly hard hit with about 4 000 people dying since the start of the outbreak a couple of years ago. The writer participated in the recent Writing for Social Change Workshop in Kampala - an annual event of The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) in collaboration with FEMRITE, the Uganda Women Writers Association. Five years ago I was sexually assaulted and I call myself a survivor. I live in a country where this word survivor is thrown around like confetti. Just an extra term for world consumption. A euphemism for scars, underneath which lurks the pain of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak that hit Sierra Leone.

  • Nigeria: Poultry Products Contaminated With Corps

    NIGERIA, 2015/08/18 The Kaduna national Police Command on Friday paraded 34 residents of Mando for exhuming ‎toxic poultry products at a dump site located along Birnin Gwari road, Kaduna. The Federal Operating Unit (FOU) Zone 'B' of The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) had on Thursday destroyed ‎ over 6,000 cartoons of imported poultry products worth about N35 million seized at Gadan Wali near Wawa town in Niger National. This followed the ban by the Federal Government on importation of poultry products to protect the poultry industry in the country. Speaking to newsmen before the suspected scavengers were paraded by the Kaduna National Police Command PRO, DSP Zubairu Abubakar, PRO of the Customs FOU, Kaduna, Ado Idris said the poultry products were toxic.

  • Plan Cameroon Reinforces Healthcare Assistance

    CAMEROON, 2015/08/14 Plan Cameroon and the Ministry of Public Health have signed a framework agreement to reinforce healthcare and other facilities to Cameroonians particularly those in the rural areas. The Country Director of Plan Cameroon, Bell'Aube Houinato signed on behalf of the organisation while the Minister of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda signed for Cameroon. Through the convention, André Mama Fouda said the activities of Plan Cameroon throughout the country will be better executed and evaluated for the benefit of the people. The Minister added that Plan's actions fall within government's activities to meet up with the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which focus on reducing child mortality; improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases inclunding ensuring environmental sustainability.

  • West Africa: Handwashing in W. African Schools Protects Children, Families From Ebola

    AFRICA, 2015/08/13 Handwashing and giving out soap in schools in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have helped to keep classrooms Ebola-free this year but schools need to remain vigilant next the summer holidays, the U.N. children's agency said on Wednesday. UNICEF said there had been no reported cases of students or teachers contracting Ebola at a school this year in the three worst-hit nations in West Africa, where the virus has killed nearly 11,300 people since the outbreak began in late 2013. In Liberia, where there have been as a lot of as 4,800 deaths, two schools were decontaminated as a precaution next one student died in June and an extra became infected in July.

  • Sierra Leone: Ebola s Victims of the Future

    SIERRA LEONE, 2015/08/13 For the last 13 years, Sierra Leone has seen a dramatic decrease in its maternal mortality rate, due in large part to the introduction of free health care for pregnant women. One of the majority devastating and from presently on rarely acknowledged impacts of the Ebola epidemic is that it threatens to undo all this good work. It's not just the loss of additional than 220 health workers, inclunding a lot of midwives, to the virus, with little training or wiggle-room in the fragile health system to replace those skills. It's as well the lingering fear of hospitals and doctors part the local people, which remains traumatised by an outbreak that has claimed almost 4,000 lives and still sees new infections each week, albeit small numbers.

  • GSK invests $365m in ongoing development of malaria vaccine

    AFRICA, 2015/07/28 GSK, a British Multinational Pharmaceutical Company, has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive scientific opinion for its malaria candidate vaccine MosquirixTM. The drugs manufacturer has so far invested $365 million into the vaccine’s development. The drug is as well known as RTS, S, in children aged 6 weeks to 17 months.
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