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Yemisi Ighodalo, a lab technician at work in the EMLAB mobile laboratory in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Nigerian mobile lab in Sierra Leone: bringing skills learned in one outbreak to another

A Nigerian mobile lab has been operating in Sierra Leone as part of…
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Tracking Ebola in the fishing community of Aberdeen in Freetown, Sierra Leone

11 March 2015 - In February 2015, cases of Ebola began appearing…
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Dr Moeti washes her hands at the entrance of the District Emergency Response center in Port Loko, Sierra Leone. WHO / P. Desloovere

WHO Regional Director for Africa concludes first leg of visits to Ebola affected countries

24 February 2015, Freetown - Today, the World Health Organization's…
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Dr Moeti shakes the hand of Sherrie Bangura (black t-shirt), Ebola survivor and founder of 'The Rescue Team', a network of Ebola survivors in Port Loko district. WHO / P. Desloovere

WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti visits Sierra Leone

Freetown, 22 February 2015 -- Today, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the newly…
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Sherrie Bangura, an Ebola survivor and founder of "Rescue team", a network of more than 90 Ebola survivors in Port Loko district, Sierra Leone WHO/P. Desloovere

Sierra Leone's Rescue Team: Ebola survivors supporting each other

The "Rescue Team", an association set up by Ebola survivors to help…
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WHO/P. Desloovere

Restarting immunization in Ebola-affected village

One of the great challenges in this Ebola outbreak is finding ways to…
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WHO/P. Desloovere

From Liberia to Sierra Leone: a cortege of hope in the fight against Ebola

Three Liberian ambulances, with 20 Liberian staff joining their…
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Zainab Akiwumi in the radio studio of Radio Maria talking about the need to suspend cultural and traditional practices in times of Ebola, Sierra Leone. WHO/S. Saporito

Increasing community engagement for Ebola on-air

WHO’s social mobilization team is using radio to reach communities…
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More than 2.5 million people reached in emergency response campaign with anti-malarial medicines in Sierra Leone

Two successive emergency response campaigns in Sierra Leone to…
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WHO mobile lab scientists at the crossing point between Guinea and Sierra Leone. WHO/Saffea Gborie

How Kailahun district kicked Ebola out

Kailahun district in eastern Sierra Leone was one of the country’s…
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