Sierra Leone health ministry receives prenatal screening equipment
Sierra Leone’s ministry of Health and Sanitation has received an ultrasound mobile Prenatal Equipment Project Outreach (PREPO) machine costing $50,000 from Heineken Africa Foundation to increase access to ultrasound screening facilities to pregnant women for early warning complications in pregnancy and child birth. Mobile-Doppler-Ultrasound-Scanner More...
Sierra Leone:- 95% epilepsy treatment gap-(Expert)
Freetown (Sierra Leone):- The director of Training for Non- Communicable Disease and Research, Dr. Donald Taqi, pointed out there is a 95% gap in the treatment of epilepsy in Sierra Leone. The Epilepsy More...
Sierra Leone health initiative gets $23m EU, UNICEF boost.
APA – Freetown (Sierra Leone): The European Union has provided UNICEF with $23 million over a period of three years to support the government of Sierra Leone’s ongoing efforts to improve health care for More...
Scientists say they have developed a vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients
A team of Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients. Spanish scientists have developed a vaccine against HIV More...
Sierra Leone:-Ministry of Health Launches Four Pharmaceutical Policy Documents
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) launched four pharmaceutical policy documents on 14 December 2012 in Freetown. The documents included the National Medicines Policy, National Essential Medicines More...
Sierra Leone:-Ministry of Health Commences Training of Districts Rapid Response Teams
The Directorate of Disease Prevention and Control (DPC) of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation conducted a 3 day training of the first set of district level Rapid Response Teams from 12-14 December 2012 More...
Sierra Leone, among 5 countries selected by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to develop proposals for new “compacts Programs”.
PRESS RELEASE December 19, 2012 MCC Board Selects Countries Eligible for Compacts and Threshold Programs. Washington, D.C. — At its quarterly meeting today, the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge More...
Sierra Leone:- Vaccine funds suspended.-“Serious concerns of misuse of GAVI funds”
20th December, 2012 By: Simon Akam Freetown – A vaccination provider set up with money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put on hold some $6 million earmarked for Sierra Leone after an More...
Finance shortfalls threaten Africa’s progress on malaria
Abuja (Nigeria) : The World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report 2012, has said a shortfall in finance threatens progress on malaria deaths throughout sub-Saharan Africa just as historic gains are More...
Sierra Leone: A 24 hours Toll-Free Health Care Line Launched
The call line (117), which is to be operated on a 24 hours, seven days a week basis, has been established for members of the public to call and register their concerns, enquiries and observations with regards More...