Crucial predicting factors of under-five mortality in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: the forgotten mortality

T he 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries across West Africa, Europe, and the United States. Sierra Leone is among the predominant three nations affected, alongside Guinea and Liberia. As of 14 December 2014, there have been 8,356 cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone, with 2,417 deaths (1). However, little focus has been paid to the deteriora...

Hantavirus in Bat, Sierra Leone

The molecular masses of the PrPres moieties from the 2 cows were also clearly distinct from those from controls with Land H-BSE (Figure). For samples from animals with H-BSE, enzymatic deglycosylation demonstrated PrPres subtypes, 1 and 2, the latter being a C-terminal PrPres fragment of ≈12–14 kDa (6). To investigate whether the novel PrPres type corresponds to PrPres subtype 2, we compared sa...

Paediatrics in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The Colony of Sierra Leone originated in the sale and cession of a portion of land to Captain John Taylor in 1788 which was placed under the protection of the British Government. The main purpose of the Colony in its inception was to secure a home on the African continent for a number of natives of Africa and some others who, due to various circumstances, had been separated from their countries...

The Sierra Leone HIS Case:

In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an enterprise and on challenges faced while building a Health Information Infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main contribution of the paper is the design of a change strategy towards an integrated HIS ...

The trauma of war in Sierra Leone.