$5k Shortfall for Charity Transatlantic Row

An urgent push is underway to raise five-thousand dollars for The Spirit of Malabo, which will be the engine for a global HIV testing campaign.  (Photo: Photo Handout: The Spirit of Malabo photograph inside a MSC container.) Brooklyn, New York -The Spirit of Malabo, a 24’ ocean rowboat, arrives in Brooklyn, New York next week [...]

“Unusual Suspects” are transforming access to Reproductive Health Services

GLC Recognizes the Gambia, Kenya, Zambia and Sierra Leone with 2013 Resolve Award WASHINGTON, May 20 /CSRwire/ – There is a global consensus that family planning and reproductive health is a life-saving, cost effective intervention that jumpstarts development. Yet,222 million women worldwide still have an unmet need for family planning. Those who are working to meet that need—in [...]

JAFAI plans to empower women, children and physically challenged

JAFAI-Health and Support Services, a non-governmental philanthropic organization is seeking to empower women, children and persons with disability in Sierra Leone.  The organization recently visited five deprived communities, Susan Bay, Kroobay, Waterloo Refugee Camp, Pademba Road Disabled Center, and the Lightfoot Boston Street of Freetown, to find out about problems, and a way of means [...]

Kambai District Council clears the air

The rehabilitation of the Rokuprmagbema Chiefdom Health Centre and  the Magbemgbeh, Gbinleh Dixon Chiefdom in the Kambia district has finally been completed, according to an investigation conducted by various media houses and press concern for the People’s Advocacy Network Sierra Leone.  The investigation came amidst various allegations saying the project was a scam.   (Photo: Newly [...]

As the rainy season approaches – Madam Cholera threatens Sierra Leone again

The word ‘Cholera’ became a fearful household name in Sierra Leone when in 2012 the disease dealt a terrible blow on this nation with disastrous consequences. Apparently, the disease has become one of those human induced epidemics this country has come to cope with, albeit with at the cost of human lives. Indeed, more than [...]

GSK and Save the Children form unique partnership to save the lives of one million children

LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 10, 2013/ – An ambitious new partnership to save the lives of a million of the poorest children in the world has been launched by GSK (http://www.gsk.com) and Save the Children. This unique collaboration will see the two organisations work together in a very different way, sharing expertise, resources, reach and influence [...]

GSK enters new commitment with the GAVI Alliance to supply cervical cancer vaccine for girls in the world’s poorest countries

LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 9, 2013/ – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (http://www.gsk.com) today announced a new commitment to the GAVI Alliance to supply its cervical cancer vaccine as part of a new long term programme to help protect girls against cervical cancer in the world’s poorest countries. To start the program and over the next two years, GSK [...]

Eye Specialist raps on sanitation in Sierra Leone

Head of Eye Clinic at Connaugh Hospital, Dr. Matthew Vandi (in photo), the only highly trained eye specialist in Sierra Leone’s government service, has revealed that improper sanitation and malaria could lead to eye related problems.  He made this disclosure on the occasion of World Malaria Day 26th April, in an exclusive interview with this [...]

Sierra Leone’s First Lady Sia Nyama Koroma in Grafton today

The Network of HIV Positives, (NETHIPS-SL), is today laying the foundation for the construction of a massive multi-purpose vocational and skills training complex in Grafton to be named after Her Excellency, the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone Sia Nyama Koroma in recognition of her remarkable role in promoting the Health Sector including [...]

Sierra Leone’s First Lady to grace NETHIPS ceremony

The Network of HIV Positives (NETHIPS) will tomorrow, Friday 3rd May, turn the sod for the construction of the Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma Vocational Skills Training Centre at Grafton along the Grafton-Regent Road.  (Photo: Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Sia Nyama Koroma) This was disclosed to Sierra Express by the Executive Director of NETHIPS, Idrissa Songo [...]

Household level contribution to the Free Healthcare in Sierra Leone

As you would recall, the war years in Sierra Leone claimed thousands of human lives of both civilians and gun totters of the different warring factions. Men, who were mostly the combatants, were affected the most.  This led to an exponential increase in the membership of the widowhood community.  (Photo: Father assisting in child care) [...]

African Partners Gather to Discuss HIV Viral Load Testing Programmes in Africa

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 26, 2013/ – More than 120 HIV clinicians, policy makers, and laboratory scientists gathered in Cape Town, South Africa from 18-20 April 2013 at the invitation of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) (http://www.aslm.org), the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO-AFRO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), [...]

Free Health Care: A Pregnant Scheme for Healthcare Systems in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is celebrating the third anniversary of the free health care initiative (launched April 27th 2010) which gears towards reducing the unaccepted deaths in the vulnerable groups of women and children. This scheme guarantees free access to healthcare services for the targeted groups of pregnant women, lactating mothers and children below the age of [...]

Online Mapping System helps fight Malaria

Aggregrated “IR Mapper” database provides global direction on insecticide resistance management NAIROBI, Kenya, April 25, 2013/ – The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria was launched today. The interactive website, called IR Mapper (http://www.irmapper.com), identifies locations in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have developed resistance to [...]

COMAHS Sierra Leone admits fresh students

A total of 519 students pursuing various courses including Nursing, Pharmacy and Medicine have been enrolled at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), University of Sierra Leone. Speaking at the matriculation ceremony which attracted distinguished personalities including the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Court, Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of Sierra Leone and [...]

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