The Save Africa From Malaria Infection (SAFMI) Foundation has embarked on an innovative campaign targeting university students in Sierra Leone in a bid to combat the persistent scourge of malaria. Spearheaded...
On World Malaria Day, 25th April, 2024, Orange Sierra Leone, a leading mobile operator in the country, in partnership with the Government of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health launched free malaria vaccines...
Sierra leone and three other African countries are set to receive 1.7 million doses of the Mosquirix malaria vaccine manufactured by British drugmaker GSK Plc in few weeks time, according to the global...
Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Liberia and eight other African countries are set to benefit from 18 million doses of malaria vaccine in the next two years. The programme is part of the Malaria Vaccine...
Sierra Leone has been designated as one of the 12 African nations to receive the world's first-ever malaria vaccine, according to an announcement made by the global vaccine alliance GAVI, the World Health...
The Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has made an ambitious pledge to reduce malaria infection by 75 percent in 2025. Speaking at the launch of World Malaria Day,...
World Malaria Day is observed annually on the 25th of April to raise awareness about malaria and the efforts to prevent and control the disease. This year’s theme is “Zero Malaria – Draw the...
The Sierra Malaria Indicator Survey (SLIMIS) has disclosed that Since 2016, malaria prevalence inches country has gone down from 43% to 22% in 2021. Slight improvement in the household living conditions...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly African children. The...
