Eva Vernooij aFrancess Koker bAlice Street aSocial Science & Medicine
IN the latest annual report of the medical services of Sierra Leone, the director, Dr. W. P. H. Lightbody records a satisfactory state of general health among a population of about 100,000 and an absence of major epidemics. Nutrition in the undisturbed tribal communities is fairly ...
ARE NOT REALLY FREE SIERRA LEONE-HEALTH: FREE HEALTH CARE NOT REALLY FREESIERRA LEONE-HEALTH: FREE HEALTH CARE NOT REALLY FREEPoindexter SamaJessica McDiarmid
Drawing on participant observation and interview data, this article suggests that building a resilient decentralized primary health care system will largely depend on the willingness of the centre to meaningfully devolve power and resources to subnational governments, and establish amutual accountability ...
Sanitation Freetown, Sierra Leone ICF Macro Calverton, Maryland USA July 2009 World Bank This report presents the findings of the 2008 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey (SLDHS) carried out by Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS)...
HEALTH-SIERRA LEONE: DRUG USE THREATENS A FRAGILE PEACELansana Fofana
Sierra Leone鈥檚 recent health reforms risk being undermined by serious weaknesses in the health system that often result in pregnant women being unable to get free treatment, says a new report by Amnesty International.Despite important reforms begun over the past two years, including a free health...
Healthcare seeking for diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia among children in four poor rural districts in Sierra Leone in the context of free health care: res... Background: To plan for a community case management (CCM) program after the implementation of the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI),...
Peripheral health units (PHUs) are a vital part of Sierra Leone's public health system. Given their strategic location in the midst of communities, they constitute an invaluable vehicle for 'organizing community effort for the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, ...
A large proportion of the health system funding in Sierra Leone comes from international aid. In 2017, the country received around$170 millionin development assistance for health; $30 million for HIV/AIDS (population prevalence is under 2%), $21 million for child and newborn health, and $14...