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Families collecting their bed nets at a distribution point in Ngiehun Village in Kenema District, Eastern Sierra Leone

Photo story: Looking back on Sierra Leone’s biggest ever bed net campaign

In June 2017, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with partners…

Huge bed net campaign kicks off in Sierra Leone

Huge bed net campaign kicks off in Sierra Leone

Today Sierra Leone kicked off bed net distributions to help protect…

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New report sheds light on tragic maternal death situation in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN (31 May 2017)—Sierra Leone’s latest Maternal Death and…

Striving for a Tobacco-Free Sierra Leone

May 31 2017 --- On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, the World…

Improving disease surveillance from paper-based to electronic system

Transforming disease surveillance through an electronic reporting platform in Sierra Leone

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation is in the process of migrating…

Health workers are the backbone of the health system

Training and Managing the Health Workers of Tomorrow

Today the Government of Sierra Leone and its partners launched a new…

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Statement on the Monkeypox Case in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone

An isolated case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Pujehun district…

A mother and child seated on a bed with an insecticide treated bed ne

Scaling up malaria prevention in Sierra Leone

Preparations are currently underway for a vast bed net distribution…

Various awareness raising activities took place across Sierra Leone on depression throughout April 2017

Tackling mental illness after Ebola

Following the Ebola crisis, a decade-long Civil War and with…

A community member putting the new technology into use to report suspected AFP cases in her locality

Using SMS technologies to enhance polio surveillance

A new SMS-based reporting system has been introduced in Sierra Leone…