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 ...
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),...
"Apart from six relatively large hospitals in Sierra Leone, the country mostly has small clinics, many of which can only provide limited health care such as herbal treatments. When people get sick, they tend to endure the pain, as they can't afford the travel and treatment expenses to see ...
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...
As Sierra Leone continues to rebuild and strengthen its healthcare system, particularly in the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak and amidst ongoing global health challenges, this study analyses the trends and inequalities in BCG vaccination coverage for one-year-olds in Sierra Leone from 2008 to 2019...
MONROVIA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Liberia, Benin, and Sierra Leone have rolled out a malaria vaccine, targeting millions of children across the three West African nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The vaccine rollout, announced on World Malaria Day, celebrated annually on April ...
This study evaluates the impact of Sierra Leone’s 2010 Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI). It uses two nationally representative surveys to identify the impact of the policy on utilisation of maternal care services by pregnant women and recent mothers a
Socioeconomic barriers such as poverty and poor access to education restrict access to healthcare services, while cultural beliefs influence health-seeking behaviours [16]. To our knowledge no national studies have documented trends and inequalities in neonatal mortality rates in Sierra Leone. This ...
In a resource-poor setting, with limited medical facilities, health care professionals like herself emphasised the need for parents to understand how to ‘care for’ their children with SCD to improve life outcomes. In Sierra Leone, this also meant a need to educate extended families, local ...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed an ineffective healthcare system, poor governance, and deficient institutional capacity in the three most affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, women and children - who accou