Sierra Leone and Guinea share broadly similar cultural worlds, straddling the societies of the Upper Guinea Coast with Islamic West Africa. There was, however, a notable difference in their reactions to the Ebola epidemic. As the epidemic spread in Guinea, acts of violent or everyday resistance to outbreak control measures repeatedly followed, undermining public health attempts to contain the c...

BACKGROUND The recent outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone has been characterized by the World Health Organization as one of the most challenging EVD outbreaks to date. The first confirmed case in Sierra Leone was a young woman who was admitted to a government hospital in Kenema following a miscarriage on 24 May 2014. On 5 January 2015, intensified training for an EVD respo...

Ezeh A (2015) Leadership and health in Africa, perspectives. The Lancet 385. Available at: http:// www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS01406736(15)61010-8.pdf The World Bank (2015) Ebola: Most African Countries Avoid Major Economic Loss but Impact on Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone Remains Crippling. Available at: https://www.worldbank. org/en/news/press-release/2015/01/20/ebola-most-afric...

Scholars have pointed to ethnic and other social divisions as a leading cause of economic underdevelopment, due in part to their adverse effects on public good provision and collective action. We investigate this issue in post-war Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries. To address concerns over endogenous local ethnic composition, and in an advance over most existing empirical work,...

LB-1. Field Laboratory Evaluation of the GeneXpert Ebola Assay for Diagnosis of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone Amanda Semper, DPhil; M. Jana Broadhurst, MD, PhD; Jade Richards, BTEC; Geraldine M. Foster, PhD; Andrew Simpson, FRCPath; Elisabetta Groppelli, PhD; Julie Johnson, PhD; J. Dan Kelly, MD; Tim Brooks, FRCPath, FRSPH; Christopher H. Logue, PhD; Ann Miller, PhD; Megan Murray, MD, ScD...

Author details Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Autoimmune Technologies, LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Corgenix Medical Corporation, Broomfield, Colorado, USA. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Vybion, Inc., Ithaca, New York, USA. Departme...

1 Anthropology Department, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, German...

T paper examines how the understanding of the prospectivity of the Liberia-Sierra Leone Basin has developed over the last 40 years largely due to improvements in seismic data over this period. A series of basins developed between major transform fault zones associated with the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean from the early Cretaceous onward. The Liberia-Sierra Leone Basin forms part of the ...

Sierra Leone is the most severely affected country by an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa. Although successfully contained, the transmission dynamics of EVD and the impact of interventions in the country remain unclear. We established a database of confirmed and suspected EVD cases from May 2014 to September 2015 in Sierra Leone and mapped the spatiotemporal di...

BACKGROUND Hypertension (HTN) is one of the causes of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Africa, and may be associated with lower socio-economic status (SES). The prevalence of HTN is not well established in the Gambia or in Sierra Leone. METHODS A cross-sectional, population-based study of adults was conducted in the Gambia in 2000 and in Sierra Leone from 2001 to 2003 and in 2009. The study wa...