Freetown - In March 2024, the government of Sierra Leone declared a polio outbreak in the country implying that unvaccinated children were vulnerable to the type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2). In April, WHO and other GPEI partne…
Lire la suiteSierra Leone joined the rest of the world to commemorate World No Tobacco Day on 31 May 2022. The event was led by the Ministry of Health, with support from WHO, in collaboration with partners including youth, religious, and the media organizations under the theme "Protecting children from tobacco industry interference."
Lire la suiteThe World Health Organization (WHO) with funding from the Islamic Development Bank Group (@isdb_group) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (@sida), handed over essential medical supplies valued a…
Lire la suiteThe Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and National Public Health Agency with support of WHO and other partners including UNICEF, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have completed the first round of a nation-wide vaccination campaign to control the spread of vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2) in Sierra Leone.
Lire la suiteFreetown ‒ La Sierra Leone est l'un des pays les plus touchés au monde par le paludisme. Cette maladie est à l’origine de plus de deux millions d'hospitalisations par an, dont la moitié concerne des enfants de moins…
Lire la suiteOn 25 April 2024, six-month-old Zainab Conteh became the first child in Sierra Leone to receive the WHO-approved malaria vaccine, during the campaign launch at the State House in Freetown. This marked the beginning of a …
Lire la suiteOn World Malaria Day, Sierra Leone officially launches the introduction and rollout of 550 000 RTS’S WHO vaccine procured by UNICEF with funding from GAVI, becoming the third country in 2024 to introduce this campaign after Cameroon and Burkina Faso.
Lire la suiteMore than 500 stakeholders including the H.E. the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Ministers of Health, Information and Civic Education and Social Welfare, key Government dignitaries, the UN and NGO partne…
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