Sierra Leone is now the newest of 38 countries in the WHO African region to have enacted a bill into law to protect its population against the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine products. The Tobacco...
Sierra Leone has joined the world to mark this year’s World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) to highlight the importance of effective breastfeeding as key to national development. On the theme “Step Up...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently approved the use of a monthly injectable drug as an additional preventive measure against contracting HIV. The long-acting injection is a form of pre-exposure...
More than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) scorecard that was launched yesterday – ahead of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday activated its highest alert level for the growing monke ypox outbreak, declaring the virus a public health emergency of international concern. According...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that there are 63% jump in diseases spread from animal to people in Africa seen in the last decade. According to WHO, Africa is facing a growing risk...
The Minister of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, Dr. Austin Demby has on Friday May 6th, 2022 participated in the one day Ministerial Summit at the King Fahad Conference Center in Dakar on the Mercy...
As the global community commemorates 2022 World Malaria Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Sierra Leone and other African countries account for 95 per cent (217 million) of the estimated...
The Sierra Leone Judiciary under the leadership of Chief Justice Babatunde Edwards will this week hold sessions across the country aimed at decongesting our heavily overcrowded prisons. In which light,...
The World Health Organization has handed over a consignment of various laboratory commodities for COVID-19 as well as routine laboratory testing worth over $600,000 to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation....
