The critical role of innovations against #polio in Africa
The polio programme has a long history of innovating in the face of challenges. From Direct Detection to Geographic Information Systems, technology supports the…
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Africa marks 12 months without wild poliovirus detections, but the job is not yet done.
As the African region marks one year since the last confirmed wild poliovirus type 1 detection, the continent's health leaders today pledged to accelerate effor…
Sierra Leone transform its weak disease detection capacity into functional electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response system
Freetown ‒ Between 2014 and 2016, the highly infectious Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone and neighboring countries claimed the lives of o…
WHO's response to the 5 November 2021 fuel tanker explosion in Freetown
On November 5, 2021, an oil tanker explosion in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown resulted in at least 100 deaths and left hundreds of people seriously injured with burns.