Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2025: Millions more people at risk of HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will have access to a powerful new prevention option: a low-cost, generic version of lenacapavir, the world’s first twice-yearly injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A new partnership announced today between the Gates [Read More]
Rose Aba Akafo (Fritong Post): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2025: The Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU) has officially called off its strike, paving the way for schools across the country to resume normal operations yesterday Monday. The strike, which lasted a whole week, caused major disruption to the resumption [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2025: Sierra Leone’s development is seriously being hampered by the lack of human resources as much as the absence of meaningful financial investment capital. Hence, when professionally qualified and experienced Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora return home, there is always that glimmer of hope that [Read More]
Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2025: Sierra Leone is faced with a silent epidemic that is destroying lives and threatening the very foundation of our future: our young people. This epidemic is the Kush crisis, a cheap drug destroying our youth with deadly consequences. Once rare and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2025: Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU) has announced that starting Monday 8th September 2025, it along with its associated unions will go out on strike, following the government’s persistent failure to invest in the country’s primary education sector. In a letter written by the SLTU [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: An international review has found that Madagascar has laid strong foundations for cancer control, expanding cervical cancer services, maintaining a health workforce and ensuring collaboration between health and radiation safety authorities. The joint imPACT review by the IAEA, World Health Organization (WHO) and International [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2025: The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance this week endorsed a series of adjustments to bring Gavi’s strategy for its next five-year period (2026-2030) in line with available resources while it continues to engage with donors that have not yet been able to pledge [Read More]
Gavi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2025: In a powerful demonstration of commitment to country ownership of immunisation, new data released today shows that lower-income countries supported by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance collectively contributed nearly US$255 million towards their own vaccination programmes in 2024 — a 19% increase from 2023. Furthermore, 84% of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2025: Although the global majority of teachers are women, a new UNESCO report provides evidence that a glass ceiling still bars women from leadership positions in education. The report also shows how women leaders in education often have a positive impact on inclusion, addressing challenges [Read More]
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