Key Findings ➢ Close to one in three households, 2,2 million people (28 percent), are severely food insecure today, marking an 8% increase from the Feb 2023 FSMS results. Some 52 percent are...
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WFP Sierra Leone Country Office: Food Security Monitoring System Report - February 2023
Key Findings A large majority (78 percent) of Sierra Leone’s population is food insecure. One in five households (20 percent) are severely food insecure. Despite this, the Global Acute Malnutrition...
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West and Central Africa's Commitment for educated, healthy and thriving adolescents and young people: « Listen, Understand, Act »
1. Preamble We, the Ministers of Education and Health of West and Central Africa (WCA), meeting in Kintélé, on 6 April 2023, Recalling the commitments made in the framework of the Sustainable...
COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership boosts Sierra Leone COVID-19 Vaccination with USD2.8 million worth donation
COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership, (CoVDP) has handed over vehicles, motorbikes and computers worth of $2.8M to support Sierra Leone Vaccination efforts. The additional support is aimed at...
Sierra Leone introduces Human Papilloma Virus vaccine to protect girls from cervical cancer
Joint Press Release - Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Gavi and the United Nations FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - 03 October 2022 - In a move to protect adolescent girls from cervical cancer, the...
National Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidelines, May 2022
Infection prevention and control (IPC) is at the heart of high-quality health care. An effective IPC programme keeps patients and health care workers safe. Global and national outbreaks, including...
Sierra Leone Food Security Monitoring System Report, February 2022
Key findings This current analysis will be used a reference point to the methodology used and according to the current results (FSMS February 2022), 73% percent of Sierra Leone’s population is food...
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Taskforce to Investigate Wellington Fire Disaster Presents Report to Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, Makes General and Specific Recommendations
State House, Freetown, Thursday 28 April 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio today received a report from the 15-man Presidential Taskforce set up to investigate circumstances...
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The Ministry of Health & Sanitation has on Thursday 11th November 2021 officially welcomed nine medical practitioners from Senegal at the 5/11 Health Coordination Centre
The deployment of these health workers is precipitated by the overwhelming state of the nation’s health care system after the sudden fire disaster at Wellington that claimed many lives and left many...
The Ministry of Health & Sanitation, in acute response to the Wellington fire disaster has on Wednesday, 10th November 2021 activated the 5/11 Health Coordination Centre housed at the Ministry’s Conference Hall, 4th flooor Youyi Building.
The principal objective of the Coordination Center is to galvanize experts & liaise with other relevant command centers to judiciously manage donations, deploy material & human resources to cater for...
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Consoles Wellington Community, Visits Survivors at Emergency, Choithrams Hospitals
Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday 7 November 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has ended his visits to survivors of the tragic fuel tanker explosion who are now responding to treatment...
Press Release from the National Disaster Management Agency (6th November 2021)
GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AGENCY 6th November 2021 In the late hours of Friday 5th November 2021, a fire incident was...
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Sierra Leone receives 113,490 Pfizer vaccines donated by the US Government via COVAX Facility
Joint Press Release Freetown, Monday, 13th September 2021 -- The United States Government, through the COVAX Facility, has boosted the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sierra Leone, with a...
Sierra Leone’s Vice President Mohammed Juldeh Jalloh, Launches National Early Warning and Response Mechanism Coordinating Center
State House, Freetown, Monday 13 September 2021 – Vice President Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has launched the National Early Warning and Response Mechanism Coordinating Center, an initiative intended to...
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Engagement de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre pour des adolescents et des jeunes éduqués, en bonne santé et épanouis « Écouter, comprendre, agir »
Version provisoire du 3 septembre 2021. Note interne : cette version prend en compte les résultats des consultations nationales tenues dans les 12 pays suivants : Burundi, Cameroun, Congo, Côte...
Joint Statement on Afghanistan Evacuation Travel Assurances, AUGUST 29, 2021
MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The text of the following statement was released initially by the Governments of the United States of America, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and...
Joint Statement on Afghanistan, 15 August 2021
The following is the text of a joint statement on Afghanistan initially released by the following: Albania, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,...
Emergency Food Security Monitoring System: Measuring the Impact of Covid-19 on Food Security and Vulnerability in Sierra Leone - June 2020
INTRODUCTION Household food security exists when all members always have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an...
Findings of Sierra Leone January 2020 Food Security Monitoring
This latest food security analysis shows a deterioration in food security in Sierra Leone compared to February 2019, with the total food-insecure population increasing from 34 percent to 47.7...
President Julius Maada Bio, AfDB Discuss Innovative Farming to End Malnutrition in Sierra Leone
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday 9 February 2020 – President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has engaged President Dr Julius Maada Bio at a side event of the AU Summit...