Education and Health

Dr. Marcella Ryan-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2021: This post is just a long rant about why I am so frustrated with the absence of systems in the Sierra Leone health sector. No, this is not political! I am just outraged. Also, before you come for me and start [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2021: Sierra Leone’s agency responsible for managing the government’s Covid programme – NACOVERC, yesterday reported that 1,003 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded between 25th of May 2021 to 24th June 2021, with an increase of 8 deaths during that period, from 79 to 87, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2021: The African Finance Ministers and the World Bank Group met on Monday, 21st June 2021 to fast track vaccine acquisition on the African continent so as to avoid a third wave. In a boost to the African Union’s target to vaccinate 60% of the continent’s [Read More]

Aids Healthcare Foundation: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2021: Like pirates on high seas, developed nations are curtailing essential supply of COVID-19 vaccines to African nations; with the continent receiving less than 2% of the total 773 million worldwide-administered doses of COVID-19 vaccines. A recent report published in the British [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2021: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is supporting Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation to develop a five-year National Health Supply Chain Strategic Plan that will map out a broader view of the current state of the country’s health supply chain, the strategic [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2021: Sierra Leone has recorded 269 new cases of Covid-19 infections in the last five days. Yesterday Saturday 19th June 2021, seventy-one new cases of Covid-19 infections were recorded in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4,702. Last Monday, 14th June [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2021: Merck Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, announces the winners of Merck Foundation More Than a Mother FASHION AWARDS 2020 from Ghana, Namibia and Zambia. The awards are by Merck Foundation in partnership with the First Lady of Ghana, H.E. Mrs. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2021: IAVI has announced it has received an award of €22.8 million from the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to conduct a Phase 2b clinical trial of a novel vaccine candidate to prevent Lassa [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2021: Global Oncology, a U.S.-based non-profit organization has today announced the appointment of Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, as Presidential Ambassador of the Cervical Cancer-Free Nigeria campaign. President Obasanjo’s role as Cervical Cancer-Free Nigeria Campaign Ambassador will accelerate broad-scale vaccination of Nigerians against HPV, the [Read More]