Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 November 2023: Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot programme and signals that scale-up of vaccination against [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 November 2023: A joint publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published today highlights an alarming rise in measles cases, disruptive outbreaks and deaths in 2022. Measles cases globally in 2022 are reported to have [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2023: Nigeria has introduced the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into its routine immunisation system, aiming to reach 7.7 million girls. This is the largest number in a single round of HPV vaccination in the African region in a vaccination drive against the virus that causes [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2023: Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, a leading global education foundation, and Silatech, an international development organisation, hosted four major side events to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The events [Read More]
Leon Usigbe: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2023: Wisdom Ajah, an 18-year-old senior secondary school graduate living in Karshi, a satellite town in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, dreams of a university education that will secure him a good job after graduation and help support his family. But it is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2023: Twelve countries across different regions in Africa are set to receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine over the next two years. The roll out is a critical step forward in the fight against one of the leading causes of death in [Read More]
Alusine Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2023: Senesie, 13, spends nine hours daily at a quarry site at No 9 in Koidu Town, Kono District smashing rocks into gravel size for sale. He does this to assist his uncle to make a living. Senesie spent nine hours in the [Read More]
Mallam Osman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2023: One of the development projects implemented by Yvonne Aki-Sawyer as Mayor of Freetown is the much-needed faecal sludge plant in Kingtom and Kolleh Town communities, which is now improving health and saving the lives of people in poor communities. The sludge (sewerage) [Read More]
UNFPA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2023: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) West and Central Africa Regional Office welcomes the high-level Ministerial Commitment for Educated, Healthy and Thriving Adolescents and Young People in the region, endorsed by Ministers of Education and Health from 24 countries in the region, in [Read More]
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