The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) crisis has underscored the frightful human consequences an unanticipated public health emergency can bring when corruption is left to fester unchecked in a country lacking even the most basic health care infrastructure,
2012). Tree status (alive or dead) was surveyed 1 year following the burns to assess post burn mortality. Pre- and post-burn shrub cover within the 0.04 ha plots was visually estimated to the nearest 5%. Post-fire, the percent of each plot covered with ash was also estimated with the ...
Given the complexities of addressing childhood adversity in post-conflict settings, such as Sierra Leone (Betancourt et al., 2020), and the opportunity to enhance the resilience already embedded within cultures and contexts, scalable interventions that build on existing protective factors and resilience...
However, as Sierra Leone emerges from a decade of destruction, field-based research undertaken in the Eastern Province suggests that diamonds could actually provide an important impetus for post-war reconstruction. Following a review of the ‘resource curse’ literature and its relevance to Sierra ...