Next Ebola Outbreak ‘Not a Matter of If, but When’
Uganda used public health measures like screening, testing of temperatures, and isolation of suspected cases to contain the Ebola outbreak. While those measures were successful, scientists warn that another outbreak could occur. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPSBy Wambi MichaelKAMPALA & MUBENDE, Mar 10 2023 (IPS) It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people.
Uganda employed public health measures to end the outbreak. In the absence of vaccines and therapeutics, the threat of the next outbreak looms.
Scientists are yet to find answers to quest...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wambi Michael Tags: Africa Editors' Choice Environment Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Uganda Source Type: news
Coverage survey and lessons learned from a pre-emptive cholera vaccination campaign in urban and rural communities affected by landslides and floods in Freetown Sierra Leone - Gelormini M, Gripenberg M, Marke D, Murray M, Yambasu S, Koblo Kamara M, Michael Thomas C, Donald Sonne K, Sang S, Kayita J, Pezzoli L, Caleo G.
BACKGROUND: On 14 August 2017, massive landslides and floods hit Freetown (Sierra Leone). More than 1,000 people lost their lives while approximately 6,000 people were displaced. The areas most affected included parts of the town with challenged access to ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
BRAC ‘Resets’ Program Aimed at Empowering Adolescent Girls in Africa
A girl reads a story book with lessons on life skills at an ELA club in Uganda. Credit: Uganda/BRAC By Naureen HossainUNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood Program (ELA) has benefitted tens of thousands of girls, and its recently released report shows an organization willing to adapt to the circumstances to continue to ensure adolescent girls and young women receive meaningful sexual and reproductive health rights support.
The report titled Adolescent Empowerment at a scale: Successes and challenges of an evidence-based approach to young women’s programming in Africa was launched on Februa...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Naureen Hossain Tags: Africa Development & Aid Editors' Choice Education Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Population TerraViva United Nations BRAC IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Santa Barbara Film Festival Names ‘A Man (Aru Otoko)’ As Best Feature, ‘A Bunch Of Amateurs’ Best Documentary
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced its winning films at a ceremony this morning in Santa Barbara. “This 38th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival drew filmmakers from as far as Turkey, India, Israel, and Sierra Leone, half of whom were women,” said…#santabarbara #turkey #israel #sierraleone #sbiff #claudiapuig #arlingtontheatre #angiewang #antoniomarziale #christinabirro (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: World Vision Donates Medical Equipment to MOHS
[Concord] The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has on February 2022 received assorted medical supplies from World Vision International to help the transformation of the health sector in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 8, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Boosts Sierra Leone With U.S.$ 2.8
[Concord] COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership,(CoVDP) has handed over vehicles, motorbikes and computers worth of US$ 2.8M to support Sierra Leone Vaccination efforts. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 27, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The barriers and facilitators to decentralised nurse-led mental health service delivery in Sierra Leone - Hopwood H, Harris D, Sevalie S, Iyawa G, Langan Martin J.
In 2009, 98.0% of people with mental illness in Sierra Leone were not receiving treatment, partly due to the absence of public psychiatric facilities outside the capital. In response to this situation, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation rolled out nurse... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: CRS to Launch Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program
[Concord] Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Sierra Leone has stated that they are set to launch Phase V of the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program on Thursday January 26. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Poor Toilet Facility At Male Correctional Centre
[Concord] Chief Superintendent of the Sierra Leone Correctional Centre, Foday Ishmael Kamara, has disclosed in an open court that, sanitation is still a serious challenge at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road, as inmates still use bucket to defecate. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: At the Male Correctional Centre - Dofa Conducts Needs Assessment for the Aged
[Concord] As a way of salvaging challenges revolving around the aged, the Dorwontony Organization for the Aged, DoFA, has yesterday 19th January, conducted needs assessment for the aged at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Centre in Freetown. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: WHO to Establish TB Vaccine Council
[Concord] Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced plans to establish a new TB Vaccine Accelerator Council. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 20, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone Enacts Law to Reserve 30% Posts for Women in Power
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WTO Council defers decision on TRIPS waiver extension
"In view of paragraph 8 of the ministerial decision on the TRIPS Agreement adopted on June 17, 2022 providing that no later than six months from the date of this decision, members will decide on its extension to cover the production and supply of Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics, the TRIPS Council recommends that the General Council extend the deadline," council Chair, Ambassador Lansana Gberie of Sierra Leone, said in the report on Friday (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - December 17, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Africa: Prevail Part of Large Ebola Vaccine Study Conducted in West Africa That Publishes Promising Findings
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Partnership for Research on Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in Liberia (PREVAIL), a joint Liberia-United States clinical research partnership, is part of the Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccinations (PREVAC), an international consortium that conducts research in West Africa. The PREVAC consortium (Liberia, Guinea, Mali, and Sierra Leone) includes scientists from PREVAIL, the French research organization Inserm, and from institutions in Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The conso (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 15, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Health Reporters Network Presents Prestigious Award to Choithram Memorial Hospital
[Concord] One of the vibrant Networks that have been tirelessly working towards ensuring that the health sector continues to provide the essential medical services required to save lives, through authentic reportage and awareness raising, the Health Reporters Network- Sierra Leone, that draws its membership from print, electronic and online media operating in Sierra Leone, on the 23rd November, 2022, awarded the Choithram Memorial Hospital as the Best Private Hospital for the year,2020, during a short but very impre (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 9, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
