Education and Health

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]

Lisa Schnirring: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2025: Cases continue to climb sharply in Sierra Leone, and the head of the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said the surge is a major focus of the outbreak response, partly to prevent the virus from spreading to other West African [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2025: Improvements in the forecasting, monitoring, identification, and reporting of diseases are expected to take hold following the establishment of the Continental Surveillance Advisory Group (CSAG), aimed at bolstering Africa’s disease surveillance capabilities. This was among the key outcomes of a meeting hosted from 23 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2025: New littering and waste dumping restriction byelaws have come into effect in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown to help keep the city clean. With tons of litter dropped every year across the streets and roads of the capital, causing environmental health issues and eyesore, Mayor [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2025: The Kenya University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) successfully performed its first two kidney transplant surgeries on 7th and 8th May 2025. Both recipients and donors are recovering well post-surgery. The official launch of the kidney transplant services was marked by a press [Read More]

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]