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

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slrs_content_management@m.resiliencesystem.org

Sierra Leone: Six Years of Carmma - Restoring Gains in Health Service Delivery

The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone had an adverse effect on the health sector, with gains achieved in the implementation of the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality (CARMMA) suffering a set-back as most women were afraid of accessing reproductive health care services.

Restoring such gains made over the years in maternal and infant mortality reduction initiatives is therefore a key post-Ebola objective in the three Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

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Climate Change and Lack of Sanitation Threaten Water Safety

Freetown, 21 March 2016 - On the eve of World Water Day, UNICEF said the push to bring safe water to millions around the world is going to be even more challenging due to climate change, which threatens both water supply and water safety for millions of children living in drought- or flood-prone areas.


The effects of climate change are felt through water (or the absence of it) - floods, storms and droughts. Water supplies which are destroyed or contaminated put the lives of millions of children at risk; without clean water, children are at risk of diseases such as diarrhea, which already kills more than 800 children under five every day.

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STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND SANITATION, DR. ABU BAKARR FOFANAH TO MARK THE END OF THE SECOND OUTBREAK OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE IN SIERRA LEONE

Dear Listeners and Viewers,


I am pleased to announce that, the Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, has been informed by the World Public Health Governing body, the Health Organization that the second outbreak of Ebola virus disease which was announced on the 2nd January 2016 has ended today Thursday 17th March 2016.

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Sierra Leone News : Aurora Engages 85 Youth on IT Training

A non-governmental organization, Aurora Foundation in-collaboration with Sam Skip has on Friday 18th March, 2016 held a one week Information and Technology (IT) training session for 85 youths of various learning institutions across the country.


The Executive Director of Aurora Foundation, Madam Regina Bjarnadottir said, Sam Skip is a shipping and logistics company based in Iceland and Holland. She confirmed that Sam Skip had been donating computers to charitable homes in Holland but has now extended their charity to Sierra Leone.

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Hundreds of contacts identified and monitored in new Ebola flare-up in Guinea

Hundreds of contacts identified and monitored in new Ebola flare-up in Guinea

 

Nzérékoré, Guinea — More than 800 contacts of recently confirmed Ebola cases in Guinea’s southern prefecture of Nzérékoré have been identified and placed under medical monitoring in a bid to contain a new flare-up of Ebola virus disease.

A community in Dubreka Prefecture, Guinea, gathers for Ebola-awareness meeting.
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On 16 March, Guinean health authorities alerted WHO and partners to 3 probable Ebola deaths and 2 suspect Ebola cases in the village of Koropara Centre, all from the same family. The following day, the 2 suspect cases, a mother and her 8-year-old daughter, tested positive for Ebola virus disease. The child has since died in a treatment facility and the mother is reported seriously ill. A high-risk contact, who travelled to the neighbouring prefecture of Macenta to consult a healer, has also died and has since tested positive for Ebola, bringing the total number of probable and confirmed Ebola deaths in the flare-up to 5.

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Immune cells of Ebola survivors show robust, sustained response

 

“Our findings counter the idea that Ebola virus infection is immunosuppressive, at least in the patients we were able to study,” Anita McElroy, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, said in a press release. “They also demonstrate the value that supportive care may have in enabling the immune system to fight back against Ebola virus infection.”

McElroy and colleagues examined the T- and B-cells of four Ebola survivors to gauge the immune system’s response to Ebola virus infection. Using the CDC’s biosafety level-4 laboratory space, they determined the frequency of activated immune cells, phenotyped activated CD8 T-cells, and measured the kinetics of each patient’s response.

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WHO revises guidance for Ebola survivors who nurse

Although Ebola virus RNA was detected at low levels, more evidence is needed to better understand the duration and infectivity of the virus in breast milk, the guidance stated. Spontaneous galactorrhea also was reported in female survivors up to 9 months after symptom onset. Studies assessing the viruses’ persistence are ongoing.

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CDC issues interim guidelines for treatment of Ebola survivors

Special consideration is merited for procedures that create the opportunity for contact with certain bodily fluids and tissues in which Ebola virus may persist, the CDC said. These include:

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New Ebola death in Guinea; Study on Ebola survivors

Guinea reports 5th Ebola death as Liberia closes border

A fifth person has died from Ebola virus infection in southeast Guinea in recent days—raising fears of geographic spread—as the country monitors more than 800 possible contacts and Liberia closed its border with Guinea, Reuters reported in separate stories.

The latest case was detected in Macenta prefecture, about 125 miles from the village of Koropara where the four other recent Ebola-related deaths occurred, said Fode Sylla Tass, a spokesman for the country's Ebola response efforts, Reuters reported today.

The man had recently visited Koropara and had been in direct contact with the first patients, Tass said. He was buried in the village of Makoidou without proper disease-control measures.

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