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Sierra Leone steps up countrywide COVID-19 vaccination
With improved supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, Sierra Leone has commenced intensified vaccination exercise to bolster protection among its eligible population against the disease.
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Ebola vaccine booster doses underway in Sierra Leone
Ebola booster dose vaccination kicks off in Sierra Leone following administration of the prime dose of the Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in May this year. Frontline health workers, traditional healers and commercial motor bike riders who received the first dose are now being given their second jab to maximise their protection against the disease. The target beneficiaries were identified as high-risk groups and selected for preventive vaccination to protect them in the event there was a cross border transmission of the disease which had re-emerged in Guinea in February 2021.
Read moreSierra Leone welcomes the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines shipped via COVAX facility
Sierra Leone has today received the second batch of 96,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine donated by France and delivered by UNICEF through the COVAX Facility, a partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone, CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). This French donation to COVAX is a part of Team Europe’s broader effort to ensure equitable access to vaccines in lower- and middle-income countries.
Read moreUNICEF and WHO welcome Sierra Leone’s Breast Milk Substitute Act 2021
Joint Press Release Freetown, 4th August 2021 - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization, (WHO), welcome the milestone reached by the Government of Sierra Leone to adopt the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (BMS) Act 2021.
Read moreWHO hands over laboratory equipment and supplies to strengthen safe blood services in Sierra Leone
Freetown, July 30, 2021 – Today, the World Health Organization Country Office in Sierra Leone formally handed over to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation a consignment of assorted laboratory equipment and commodities for safe blood services worth $133,000 to help bolster laboratory capacity for safe blood services in the country.
Read moreWHO-GIZ Cooperation continues to enhance Sierra Leone’s capacity to fight COVID-19
Thursday 1 July 2021, Freetown: As Sierra Leone battles her third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Sierra Leone with funding from our partners – GIZ and the German Cooperation - have once again supported the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with a donation of essential laboratory supplies that will help the country to respond to the third wave. The supplies include 82,000 sample collection kits; 1,620 automated PCR Kits (GeneXpert); and 10,000 antigen-based rapid diagnostic test kits (Ag-RDTs), altogether valued at $195,284.
Read moreVaccination boosts Sierra Leone’s Ebola prevention
Freetown – While the 2014–2016 deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa devastated lives and wrecked health services, it also offered pivotal lessons in outbreak control by stoking swift and more effective response as well as driving progress in vaccines and therapeutics.
Read moreVaccination boosts Sierra Leone’s Ebola prevention
While the 2014–2016 deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa devastated lives and wrecked health services, it also offered pivotal lessons in outbreak control by stoking swift and more effective response as well as driving progress in vaccines and therapeutics.
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