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SLRS Project Coordination and Supervision Group

This group is mainly concerned with coordinating and facilitating the activities of SLRS Team to ensure and meet the objectives of the project.

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31° 43' 41.4012" N, 148° 32' 6.5616" W
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Experimental Ebola treatment trial shows inconclusive results

Scientists recently conducted a trial for an experimental Ebola treatment in Guinea during the latest Ebola outbreak, hoping to gather information for future treatments and vaccines for Ebola.

 

Unfortunately, there is still no effective treatment for Ebola. The outbreak reached its height in September 2014, when the World Health Organization published a shot list of treatments that might fight the virus.

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Doctors Abandon Isolation Centre At Connaught Hospital

Country Director of UK-based Kings Health Partners, an organisation that currently operates in Sierra Leone, Francis Kaikumba, has expressed disappointment over the abandonment of the refurbished former Ebola isolation centre, after his organisation spent close to a million pounds sterling to rehabilitate and transform the centre into a special emergency unit with 79 beds.

 

"With funds from the Department of International Development (DFID), we have rehabilitated the centre and the outpatient edifice with extra facilities that are first of its kind in Sierra Leone," he said, adding that a resuscitation machine and oxygen inhaler to help unconscious patients were made available in the hospital for the first time.

 

He pleaded with the public to be making the best out of the facility regardless of the paucity of doctors at the unit.

 

He disclosed that the number of patients that visit the unit was increasing by the day and that they intend to expand the project by rehabilitating the trauma ward for victims who involved in severe accidents and become traumatised.

 

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Relief for families impacted by Ebola flare-up

Sierra Leone is once again counting down the days until the latest flare-up of Ebola can be declared over. As part of the inter-agency response to the flare-up, dozens of people who were in contact with two individuals who had tested positive for Ebola were isolated and placed under medical observation. With the monitoring period now over, they are breathing a sigh of relief as their lives get back to normal.

 

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US supports malaria control in Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) has welcomed the announcement of support by the United States Government to include Sierra Leone in President Barack Hussein Obama’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). This was disclosed at the weekend in a joint press release by the Public Affairs Office of United States Mission Sierra Leone and the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. According to the release, “The Ministry of Health and Sanitation is hopeful that the additional funds for PMI requested by President Obama will be approved by the U.S. Congress, paving the way for Sierra Leone to join other countries supported by this initiative.” The inclusion of Sierra Leone in the PMI will be a realization of the request by President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma during a White House meeting in 2013 with President Barack Obama, the release states. -

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Zero Discrimination Day on HIV and other Diseases

Freetown, March 2nd 2016 Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) - Sierra Leone has joined the world over to observe Zero Discrimination Day on HIV and other diseases on the theme: “Stand out and encourages everyone to stand for fair and just societies”.

 

Addressing the Press on Tuesday March 1, 2016 at the Health Ministry’s conference hall in Freetown, the Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation 1, Foday Sawi Lahai while speaking on the theme observed that discrimination remains widespread in gender, nationality, age, ethnic origin, religion or even HIV and Ebola.

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SLRS Content Management Group

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This group is focused on building content for the Sierra Leone Resilience system and Content Management within Sierra Leone

Ebola activity heats up as West Africa's rainy season begins

CIDRAP NEWS by Lisa Schnirring                                                                               June 3, 2015

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In  its weekly epidemiologicpidemiologic profile of the outbreak Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Ebola activity in Guinea and Sierra Leone has become more intense and widespread since May 10, when the region saw cases hit a 10-month low.

Last week the two countries reported 25 new lab-confirmed cases, 13 in Guinea and 12 in Sierra Leone. The number is up from 12 reported the week before.

Overall, the total of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases in the two countries and Liberia—which is now Ebola free—has risen to 27,145, including 11,147 deaths, the WHO said.

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