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Deputy Health Minister urges parliament to pass Safe Motherhood Bill
AYV News, December 19, 2024
Dr. Jalikatu Mustapha, Deputy Minister of Health II, has made an impassioned plea to Members of Parliament, calling the Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Healthcare Bill...
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Cottage Hospital reduces maternity deaths by 12 percent
AYV News, December 11, 2024
Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (Cottage) has reduced death related to child birth by 11.7 percent in the last six months.
Data...
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Ebola Preventive Vaccination campaign continues nationwide
AYV News, December 9, 2024
Following the launch of the Ebola Preventive Vaccination Campaign for health workers by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, the...
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Freetown Terminal launches HIV Testing initiative for employee welfare, public health
AYV News, December 9, 2024
Freetown Terminal Limited (FTL), a subsidiary of Africa Global Logistics (AGL), has taken a proactive step towards promoting employee welfare...
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77,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone
77,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone, with about 70,000 actively responding to treatment.
Director General of the National AIDS Secretariat, Abdul Rahman...
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Over 345 benefit from Healthcare for the Aged free health
Healthcare for the Aged, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the health and well-being of older adults, over the weekend provided free healthcare and eye...
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Health Minister addresses pending Doctors’ strike
Dr. Austin Demby, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health and Sanitation has the Ministry has engaged the doctors, assuring them that their fuel allocations will...
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In new Test, Avoid, Cure TB in Children Report: Doctors Without Borders call for urgent global support to children with TB
AYV News, October 22, 2024
In a new report released last week, called Test, Avoid, Cure TB in Children (TACTiC), Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders...
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Defence Ministry to recruits 500 healthcare workers
AYV News, September 3, 2024
Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Defence has revealed plans to recruit five hundred health care workers for the Joint Medical Unit...
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In Sierra Leone: 355,363 newborn to get free Hepatitis B Vaccine
AYV News, September 3, 2024
The Government of Sierra Leone through the Expanded Programme on Immunization in the Ministry of Health in collaboration with its...
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“Mpox is not the new COVID…”World Health Organization states
AYV News, August 26, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge has stressed that the Mpox is not the new...