Making sense of girls empowerment in Sierra Leone: a conversation

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 ...

Mining and Environmental Degradation: a Gift Brings Grief Scenario for Mining Communities in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is blessed with abundant natural resources but yet prone to environmental degradation due to the mining operations. Most often, the mining communities are faced with social tensions, as a result of the possible trade-off between the expected employment impact and the cost of mining operations to the environment. Over the past decades, the contribution of the mining sector to the de...

The trauma of war in Sierra Leone.