By Abdul Malik Bangura
Apr 22, 2016, 17:18

Dr. Mariama Murray, Child Health Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) deputy Programme Manager has in a press conference at the Ministry of  Lands, Country Planning and Environment, Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Youyi Building, Freetown on Thursday 21st April, 2016 confirmed that Sierra Leone is currently suffering from a Measles Outbreak.

Dr. Mariama Murray said the current Measles Outbreak commenced in August 2015 in Kono district and has continued to spread in 2016 affecting 12 (86%) districts.

Thursday April 21, 2015

By Ade Campbell
Thursday April 21, 2015

Posted Apr. 19, 2016 at 2:01 AM 

Zika is all over the news. Zika is surely dangerous, but it has its limitations and is likely to be well contained. However, its greater significance extends beyond any current spread. Instead, it exemplifies the crucial emerging trend of a novel infectious agent that has swiftly become a global threat.

The Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Mr. Charles Rogers, has disclosed that despite the devastating effect of the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on the national economy for sixteen (16) months, the Ministry managed to raise a maximum different from the normal years.

April 19, 2016

Results of the Wellcome Trust funded trial of the experimental anti-Ebola drug TKM-130803 have been published today (April 19) in PLOS Medicine. Using a novel approach designed to get rapid indications of a drug's effectiveness, the trial showed that at the dose given the drug did not improve survival compared to historic controls.

TKM-130803 interferes with the production of two essential Ebola virus proteins and has been shown to improve survival when given to monkeys experimentally infected with Ebola virus. Scientists from the University of Oxford and Sierra Leone worked with the humanitarian organisation GOAL Global, the World Health Organisation, and collaborators from a number of other institutions to test whether TKM-130803 could improve survival in adults with Ebola infection.

The researchers used a new approach to generate early evidence of effectiveness or ineffectiveness. This method can be used as a tool to screen potential therapies and determine the need for further studies (including randomised controlled trials) during an epidemic. The approach meant that the study was quickly able to reach a pre-defined point to stop the trial.

Tuesday April 19, 2016

By Mohamed Kabba
Tuesday April 19, 2016

By Saffa Moriba
Tuesday April 19, 2016

By Mohamed Kabba
Tuesday April 19, 2016

By Sylvia Villa
Tuesday April 19, 2016

Salome Jones Hydes, founder of Friends of Sierra Leone on Monday encouraged the management and staff of the Sierra Leone Housing Corporation (SALHOC) to take cautious measures as diabetes is on the increase.
In a dialogue meeting held at the main office of SALHOC at Siaka Stevens Street, Madam Jones Hydes informed the management and staff of SALHOC that diabetes is a sickness of the nerve and has so many risks attached to it if not prevented.

Samantha Roper

15th April 2016

By Pasco Temple Information Attaché, Embassy of Sierra Leone USA 
Apr 15, 2016, 17:04

The Three Sierra Leonean Members of Parliament who are in attendance to this year’s Global Parliamentary Conference have appealed to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group to increase the nominal and present value of the Country’s debt ceiling.

They also appealed for more grant to stimulate growth of the Country’s Economy.

Monrovia - The Liberia-US Joint Clinical Research Partnership otherwise known as the Partnership for Research on the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia (PREVAIL) which was launched in June 2015 in the country has yielded tremendous results as efforts continuous to speedily address gaps that could delay the Research.

It was against this backdrop PREVAIL’s Lead Community Engagement pilot led by the Executive Director of the Liberia Crusaders for Peace (LCP) Amb. Juli Endee and the Social Mobilization arm led by Mr. Bartholomew Wilson have jointly embarked on community engagement meeting/awareness with community, religious, traditional, youth leaders as well as Ebola Survivors across the country.

WHO, partners and affected countries are stepping up planning for how to use an Ebola vaccine in response to an outbreak.