Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: An increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer, according to a joint statement published yesterday by the Vaccine Alliance – Gavi, UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO). In 2023, vaccination [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people globally, 40% of whom live in the African region. Meeting in Togo from 15 to 17 April 2025 for the NTD [Read More]
Siera Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2025: Eight Southern African countries have embarked on a landmark effort to bolster emergency preparedness and response systems in the face of increasing climate-related health threats. With financial support from the Pandemic Fund, and technical assistance from World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: This week, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health received over 1,000,000 pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat the meningococcus C and W outbreak in northern Nigeria. The outbreak has already claimed over 70 lives, with more than 800 cases [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: Fifteen African countries have committed to end learning poverty by 2035 following concerted engagement during the Year of Education, as leaders call for sustained and co-ordinated action to improve continental productivity, drive economic growth, and address Africa’s learning crisis. Following the conclusion of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: The Reaching Every Child in Humanitarian Settings (REACH) consortium has officially administered 9 million vaccine doses to children in humanitarian and conflict-affected regions across the Horn of Africa. REACH is funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and led by the International Rescue Committee [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2024: The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), which is hosted by UNICEF, last Friday announced that its first large-scale project developing new ways to fund and deliver improvements in education in Africa and beyond, has delivered strong results for children after two years of operation in [Read More]
Siera Leone Telegraph: 09 December 2024: One decade after the deadliest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in history wreaked havoc on the country and its health care workforce – Sierra Leone will become the first country, among the three most severely affected ten years ago by the West Africa Ebola [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2024: The National Safeguarding Community of Practice is pleased to announce its official launch last Thursday November 28th, 2024. This groundbreaking initiative aims to create a robust network of professionals dedicated to the safety and well-being of children and vulnerable adults across Sierra Leone. The [Read More]
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