News Sierra Leone Health: Sierra Leone school defies state ban on pregnant girls in class
FREETOWN — When Mariatu Sesay realized she was pregnant at 14, one thing scared her more than the social isolation she felt in the classroom: Sierra Leonean law banned her from attending school at all because she was expecting.
News Sierra Leone Health: Sierra Leone: The Country Least Committed to Reduce Inequality, Poverty
"This index reveals that the Sierra Leone government is exacerbating inequality by underfunding public services, such as health care and education. It also shows that Sierra Leone government is ...
News Sierra Leone Health: 'Toxic stress': Addressing mental health needs in Sierra Leone
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10 percent of the country's population of seven million has mental health problems. Due to an unknown number of unreported cases, the reach of ...
News Sierra Leone Health: Sierra Leone: 'Mental Health Is Everybody's Business'
Programs Manager of Mental Health Coalition Sierra Leone (MHCSL), Joshusa Abioseh Duncan, has last Friday averred that mental health is everyone's business, and that it is the right of everybody to enjoy the highest standard of physical and mental health.
News Sierra Leone Health: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sierra Leone
In fact, Lawrence was somewhat hesitant when the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) approached him for a project on maternal and sexual health in Sierra Leone. The Edinburgh-born photographer ...
News Sierra Leone Health: Researchers Develop Vulnerability Assessment for Zoonotic Diseases
This will aid government agencies and health organisations in evaluating a country’s ... examined data from Lassa fever epidemics in Nigeria (2017 – 2018) and Sierra Leone (2008 – 2012) and Ebola in ...
News Sierra Leone Health: Vulnerability to Ebola and Lassa fever can now be properly assessed
This will aid government agencies and health organisations in evaluating ... Lassa fever epidemics in Nigeria (2017—2018) and Sierra Leone (2008—2012) and Ebola in Sierra Leone (2013—2016). ...
News Sierra Leone Health: Sierra Leone improving children’s health, but pregnant girls still banned from school: NGO
Sierra Leone has made strides in improving child welfare over the past 20 years, showing the greatest improvement worldwide, says the NGO Save the Children. While child mortality among under ...
