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An integrated nationwide Maternal and Child Health Week campaign (MCHW) is underway in Sierra Leone aimed at restoring the delivery of essential health services which were interrupted during the Ebola outbreak. The campaign locally known as “Mammy and Pikin Wellbodi Week” is being conducted from 26-30 November with the focus of reaching an estimated 1.3 million children under 5 years with vitamin A supplementation and deworming with Albendazole. It also provides opportunity to reach children 0-23 months tha

First large scale maternal and child health campaign underway after end of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

An integrated nationwide Maternal and Child Health Week campaign (…

this child missed some of the routine vaccines. she was traced by a team of vaccinators by assessing her vaccination card and given the missed vaccines

Revitalising National Immunisation services with routine and supplementary vaccination campaigns

In Sierra Leone, the Ebola outbreak has affected all aspects of…

Statement on the end of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

Delivered by Dr Anders Nordström, WHO Representative in Sierra Leone…

WHO commends Sierra Leone for stopping Ebola virus transmission

Freetown, 7 November 2015 - Today, the World Health Organization…

Samuel Eto’o training with some of the children at the Football academy in Freetown

“FIFA 11 for Health” programme launched in Sierra Leone to promote healthy lifestyles among young people

FIFA in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Football Association,…

Preliminary study finds that Ebola virus fragments can persist in the semen of some survivors for at least nine months

Freetown, 14 October 2015 - Preliminary results of a study into…

Ebola contact tracing team at work in the quarantined village, Bombali district, Sierra Leone.

Rapid response to new Ebola infection in Bombali, Sierra Leone

WHO is helping Sierra Leone to mobilize all its experience and…

Presentation of cases by district

WHO Sierra Leone Weekly Partners' Brief, 8 September 2015

Epidemiological data

WHO team organizing intensive response to the new Ebola case reported in Kambia.jpg

Guinea Ring Vaccination trial extended to Sierra Leone to vaccinate contacts of new Ebola case

Freetown, Sierra Leone – 31 August 2015: Detection of a new case of…

Adama Sankou, an Ebola survivor, was released from the Makheni Ebola treatment unit on 24 August 2015, Sierra Leone.

Last Ebola case in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone celebrated an important milestone on Monday, 24 August…