War and deforestation in Sierra Leone

The trauma of war in Sierra Leone.

Access to healthcare in post-war Sierra Leone

Psychosocial intervention for war-affected children in Sierra Leone.

BACKGROUND There are no psychosocial interventions to address both educational needs and psychological distress among displaced children in post-conflict settings. AIMS To assess the psychosocial status of displaced children enrolled in the Rapid-Ed intervention; and to determine whether the Rapid-Ed intervention alleviated traumatic stress symptoms that interfere with learning among war-affe...

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...