Sheriff Mahmud Ismail Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2015 Two years ago, Sierra Leone’s parliament enacted the Right to Access Information Law and in 2014 joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In its action plan submitted to the OGP, the government committed itself to launching an open data initiative. It [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2015 It appears that we are eventually winning the war against the dreaded Ebola virus disease (EVD) as the number of casualties from the pandemic is finally on the decrease. (Photo: Zainab Tunkara Clarkson). And as West Africa starts to see the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 February 2015 Another British military health worker in Sierra Leone has today been flown out of the country, suspected of contracting the Ebola virus. This is the second case in three days. A British military nurse was also flown to London last Saturday, after report of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 February 2015 In this interview by Yemisi Akinbola for Africa Renewal, Julien Potet (Photo), the Policy Advisor on Neglected Tropical Diseases Vaccines with Medecins Sans Frontieres, talks about the challenges and advances made thus far in finding treatment for Ebola. Africa Renewal: What research had been done prior to 2014 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 February 2015 As efforts to find a cure for the Ebola virus gather momentum, Yemisi Akinbola for Africa Renewal caught up with Dr Bernadette Murgue (Photo), the Deputy Director of the French Institute of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. They discussed issues surrounding Ebola treatment. This is an excerpt from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2015 The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is planning to step up its support for building cross-border public health capacity and safe migration systems in West Africa to contain Ebola and other infectious diseases. The prevention of cross-border transmission has been identified as crucial in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2015 World Bank Group President – Jim Yong Kim, this week laid out a vision in which insurance companies, governments, multi-lateral organizations, corporations and international donors, should work together to build a system that would help all countries prepare for potentially catastrophic health disasters. Kim [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2015 Once in every ten years, the government of Sierra Leone is required to carry out a head count of the entire population. And in three months time – April 2015, every village, town and city in the country, will have its population counted and [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2015 In April 2010, the government of Sierra Leone introduced the free healthcare initiative, abolishing user fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children less than five years of age in public health facilities. It also banned Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) [Read More]
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