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Poor road management responsible for 80,000 child accidents

By Ade CampbellWednesday April 13, 2016Meeting / Event Tags: Conference CallRoundtableSimulation and/or exerciseTrainingMeetingPresentationProduct DemonstrationsConferenceCountry / Region Tags:...

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Unaccredited Nursing schools are unacceptable-Health Ministry

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in collaboration with the Nurses and Mid Wives Board, has condemned the establishment of illegal nursing and midwifery schools around the country.According to a...

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To increase access to budget info… AHBN launches #ValueOurHealth

Thursday April 14, 2016Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) yesterday launched a new campaign dubbed #ValueOurHealth at Kona Lodge, King Street in Freetown which is a prelude to the Global launch...

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The struggle for Water Is Sickening!

By Beny SamThursday April 14, 2016With all the efforts made by our ministry of water resources, the bulk of our compatriots are still thirsting for water. In Africa, many communities go without...

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‘Sierra Leone is open to business’ – VSL manager

Thursday April 14, 2016Meeting / Event Tags: Conference CallRoundtableSimulation and/or exerciseTrainingMeetingPresentationProduct DemonstrationsConferenceCountry / Region Tags: AfricaSierra...

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Looking, hopefully, towards an Ebola-free future

Ebola vaccine trial team follows-up with a vaccine trial participant, Katongourou, GuineaWHO/S. Hawkey -April 15, 2016 WHO, partners and affected countries are stepping up planning for how to use an...

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Develop 34 Military Hospital – Pres. Tells CDS

Friday April 15, 2016Meeting / Event Tags: Conference CallRoundtableSimulation and/or exerciseTrainingMeetingPresentationProduct DemonstrationsConferenceCountry / Region Tags: AfricaSierra LeoneGeneral...

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Dr. Campbell: Zika virus much worse than initially feared

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a Zika emergency. From 2007 to 2016 there are cases in 62 countries and the numbers are only increasing.By Dr. Kevin...

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Clinical trial for experimental Ebola drug publishes results

April 19, 2016Results of the Wellcome Trust funded trial of the experimental anti-Ebola drug TKM-130803 have been published today (April 19) in PLOS Medicine. Using a novel approach designed to get...

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How Ebola Destroyed Maternal Health Gains in Sierra Leone

By Finbarr O'Reilly May. 2, 2016When she went into labor last November, 18-year-old Kema James climbed onto the back of a motorbike taxi in her village in eastern Sierra Leone and rode half an hour to...

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Heightened Surveillance: Liberia and Guinea Discharge Ebola Patients

Monrovia – Liberia’s and Guinea’s last known Ebola patients in a latest flare-up of the disease that hit both countries have now been discharged. All remaining contacts of confirmed cases that were...

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One more time; keep the City Clean

Freetown after Independence in 1961 up to the early seventies was a reasonably clean city. Local dump sites for garbage were strategically located all over the city and were regularly cleared out by...

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NutriCare Sierra Leone works in partnership with local communities.

More than a billion people on a wider perspective suffer from chronic malnutrition and hunger. In spite of official pledges to halve the world's hungry, the trend now runs in the opposite direction....

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Why Venezuela's Currency Crisis Is A Case Study For Bitcoin

           People stand in line to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine (ATM) outside a bank in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. (Wil Riera/Bloomberg)forbes.com - by Kevin...

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More than 100 Chinese cities now above 1 million people

IMAGE: A boom in telecommunications businesses – including the arrival of e-commerce giant Alibaba – has transformed once-sleepy Guiyang. Photograph: Alamytheguardian.com - March 20th 2017 - Benjamin...

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Climate Change Has Intensified Hurricane Rainfall, and Now We Know How Much

           Houston residents Larry Koser Jr. and his son Matthew salvage possessions from their home after Hurricane Harvey. Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty ImagesCLICK HERE - STUDY - Anthropogenic...

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G20 leaders vow to supply vaccine to needy countries, despite funding shortfall

G20 leaders vow to supply vaccine to needy countries, despite funding shortfallLeaders approve final declaration with no objection from Donald Trump to climate language.POLITICOThe world’s 20 most...

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NIH awards ore than $107M in broad effort to find new COVID-19 testing,...

More than $107M awarded by NIH in broad effort to find radical COVID-19 testing, surveillance ideas - Homeland Preparedness NewsAs the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, the National Institutes of Health...

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Online discussion today: Creating Fiscal Space During the Covid-19 Era

  The CSIS Global Health Policy Center invites you to join us for an online event: Creating Fiscal SpaceDuring the Covid-19 Era Thursday, April 29, 20212:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT   Keynote remarks...

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Merck says its COVID-19 pill works against variants--lab studies

Merck says research shows its COVID-19 pill works against variantsLaboratory studies show that Merck & Co's experimental oral COVID-19 antiviral drug, molnupiravir, is likely to be effective...

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