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By the end of the Ebola epidemic, death reporting in Sierra Leone (SL) became more acceptable amongst local populations, with nearly all deaths being reported to the Ebola hot line alert centers. To continue the positive momentum generated by the epidemic, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organized and conducte...
Experiences of healthcare workers responding to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa vary with the types of facility. Patients suspected of having Ebola virus disease (EVD) must be isolated from each other as well as from the wider community until testing is complete; in Sierra Leone such facilities were called Ebola holding units (EHUs). Once EVD was confirmed, patients were moved to Ebola treatm...
Sierra Leone reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 30, 2020. This report describes the clinical characteristics and epidemiological features few cases contacts in Leone.
HYPOTHESIS Lack of access to surgical care is a public health crisis in developing countries. There are few data that describe a nation's ability to provide surgical care. This study combines information quantifying the infrastructure, human resources, interventions (ie, procedures), emergency equipment and supplies for resuscitation, and surgical procedures offered at many government hospitals...
BACKGROUND Lassa fever (LF), an often-fatal hemorrhagic disease caused by Lassa virus (LASV), is a major public health threat in West Africa. When the violent civil conflict in Sierra Leone (1991 to 2002) ended, an international consortium assisted in restoration of the LF program at Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in an area with the world's highest incidence of the disease. METHODOLOGY/PRI...
Marcus Panning, Petra Emmerich, Stephan Ölschläger, Sergiusz Bojenko, Lamine Koivogui, Arthur Marx, Peter Clement Lugala, Stephan Günther, Daniel G. Bausch, and Christian Drosten Author affi liations: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (M. Panning, P. Emmerich, S. Ölschläger, S. Günther, C. Drosten); United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone (S...
The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS is at catastrophic levels in sub-Saharan Africa, while the need for research and treatment initiatives throughout the developing world remains critical. The West African country of Sierra Leone is representative of both of these facts. The purposes of this study were to assess the HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of adult Sierra Leoneans to determi...
In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an enterprise and on challenges faced while building a Health Information Infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main contribution of the paper is the design of a change strategy towards an integrated HIS ...
OBJECTIVE To describe the current status of access to maternal care, family planning use, and place of delivery in Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world with one of the highest maternal mortality rates. METHODS Data from the Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need, a cross-sectional two-stage cluster-based household survey conducted in Sierra Leone in 2012, were analyz...
Background Many low-income and crises-affected countries like Sierra Leone struggle with the recruitment and retention of their health professionals, particularly nurses and doctors. There are multiple factors that influence the 'recruitment to retention' pipeline. The first stage of an exploration into the issues influencing the availability of qualified health care workers may focus on the as...
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