Education and Health

Siera Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2025: Ghana Health Services, in partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), the World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF, yesterday launched the country’s first nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign. The five-day campaign, running from 8 to 11 October, aims to reach 2.4 million girls [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 October 2025: UEFA and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have joined forces to launch a groundbreaking vaccine awareness campaign that harnesses the power of football to build trust in immunisation across Africa. With the support of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and its member associations, Goal [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2025: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved the Sierra Leone Water Security and WASH Access Improvement Project. Supported by a $40 million International Development Association (IDA) grant focused on the Western Area, the project is the first phase of a Multiphase Programmatic [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2025: Vaccination programmes in lower-income countries supported by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance saved at least 1.7 million lives in 2024, the highest number recorded in a single year, according to Gavi’s Annual Progress Report published today. The number of lives saved – 400,000 more than [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2025: In a landmark move, the Ministries of Health of Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire, together with Uganda’s Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) under the stewardship of the Uganda Ministry of Health, have signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies (Terumo [Read More]

Basita Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2025: In a Premier Media article, Raymond A. Kamara described Freetown as “not only our capital city but one of Africa’s most significant historical landmarks and a powerful symbol of resilience, freedom, and the African diaspora’s homecoming.” His words stirred pride, showing Freetown [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: At its 2025 Goalkeepers event, Gates Foundation Chair Bill Gates stood before an audience of more than 1,000 global government, community, philanthropy, and private-sector leaders and issued a stark but hopeful call to world leaders: save millions of children’s lives and make some of [Read More]

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]