Where pregnancy is a deadly gamble
Sierra Leone is one of the riskiest places to have a baby. One teen fears repeating her mother’s story of dying in childbirth. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - May 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Danielle Paquette Source Type: news
Commitment to African Medicines Agency Needs More Than Words
To date, 19 countries have already ratified the treaty. However, this number remains far short of the 55 AU member states and excludes some of the region’s power houses such as South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Senegal. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPSBy Johnpaul Omollo and Taonga ChilalikaNAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29 2022 (IPS) Across Africa, local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies are responding to the urgent need for locally produced medical products and technologies despite the existing regulatory challenges. We can support manufacturing capacity by expediting the establishment and operationalisation of t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Johnpaul Omollo and Taonga Chilalika Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Premier League Clubs Medics Applaud Slfa for Medical Training
[Concord] Sierra Leone Premier League club's medics have showered praises on the executive of the country's Football Association for introducing a two-day medical course for Premier Leagues. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Goodwill Foundation Organizes First Islamic Mental Health Summit
[Concord] The CEO of Goodwill Foundation and Keynote speaker, Mohamed Kamara (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 20, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Parliamentary Committee On Health Has Not Done Oversight for 4 Years - SLPP MP Disclosed
[Concord] Hon. Hafiju Kanja representing Constituency 018, Kenema District, has disclosed in the Well of Parliament that the Health Committee is the only committee in Parliament that has done four years without going on oversight. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 19, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living
Many developing countries don ’t keep official death records. A novel effort uses “electronic autopsies” to count deaths, and record their cause. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen and Finbarr O ’Reilly Tags: Deaths (Fatalities) Third World and Developing Countries Research Autopsies Africa Sierra Leone Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action (COMSA) Source Type: news
This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.
Sierra Leone, one of the world ’s poorest countries, is working to build a modern mental health system from scratch. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen and Finbarr O ’Reilly Tags: Mental Health and Disorders Psychiatry and Psychiatrists Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospitals Third World and Developing Countries Doctors Nursing and Nurses Partners in Health Sierra Leone Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: Public Smoking to Be Banned
[Concord] Members of Parliament have in a pre-legislative hearing yesterday discussed the 'Tobacco and Nicotine Control Bill 2022" in order to ban public smoking across the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 4, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Wealthy Nations, Corporate Titans ’ False Promises of Fair COVID-19 Recovery Exposed, How Africa’s Inequality Deepened
Alice Atieno relies on sack farming outside her shanty in the sprawling Kibera Slums in Nairobi, Kenya. COVID-19 reversed gains made in poverty reduction, and the unequal access to vaccines has deepened global inequality. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS By Joyce ChimbiNairobi, Kenya, Mar 29 2022 (IPS) Even as COVID-19 brought Africa’s already fragile health care and economic systems to the brink, wealthy states colluded with corporate giants to dupe people with empty slogans and false promises of a fair recovery from the ongoing health pandemic, a newly released report by Amnesty International report finds.
The global human ri...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations #VaccineInequity IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Vaccines Source Type: news
Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa ’s Low Death Rates
The coronavirus was expected to devastate the continent, but higher-income and better-prepared countries appear to have fared far worse. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Disease Rates Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Deaths (Fatalities) Research Antibodies Africa Sierra Leone South Africa your-feed-science Source Type: news
Germs, guns, and fear in disaster response: a rapid qualitative assessment to understand fear-based responses in the population at large: lessons from Sierra Leone 2014-2015 - Nally CP, Van de Voorde P, Temmerman M, Adam M.
We set out to assess the feasibility of community-focused randomized qualitative assessment at the start of an emergency to identify the root causes of fear-based responses driving the pandemic. We used key informant interviews, focus group discussions, re... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
In Africa, a Mix of Shots Drives an Uncertain Covid Vaccination Push
Supplies are more plentiful now but they are unpredictable and often a jumble of brands. Many places can ’t meet the W.H.O.’s recommended dosing schedules. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen and Rebecca Robbins Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Third World and Developing Countries Medicine and Health Africa Sierra Leone Source Type: news
When the mountain broke: disaster governance in Sierra Leone - Melis S, Hilhorst D.
PURPOSE When a major landslide and floods devastated Freetown, Sierra Leone had just overcome the Ebola crisis, which had left its mark on socio-political relations between different disaster response actors. With international disaster response frameworks... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: The World Bank Approves new Grant for Sierra Leone to Further Strengthen Social Safety Nets and Boost Resilient Recovery
[World Bank] The World Bank today approved a $40 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support improved access to social safety nets and income generating opportunities for over 176,000 beneficiaries, including women, youth and persons with disabilities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 9, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
“Don’t Forget Leprosy” Campaign Gathers Pace as World Leprosy Day Approaches
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, has served as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination since 2001. He is part of Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative, which has organized the “Don’t forget leprosy” campaign.By External SourceJan 28 2022 (IPS-Partners) Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative is collaborating with 32 organizations from 13 countries to promote the message “Don’t forget leprosy” in the run-up to World Leprosy Day on January 30. The international campaign includes awareness-raising events and outreach to governments and is being publicized via newspaper...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: COVID-19 Health Humanitarian Emergencies #SasakawaLeprosyInitiative Source Type: news
