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Social Health Insurance Scheme accredits health facilities

 AYV News, August 21, 2025 The Sierra Leone Social Health Insurance Scheme (SLeSHI) has started a nationwide accreditation exercise for healthcare facilities, beginning in the Southern Region. According to SLeSHI, the process...

Health Ministry discuss MPOX response in Sierra Leone 

AYV News, August 18, 2025 The Ministry of Health hosted a one-day National Discourse on MPOX Response at the Atlantic Hotel in Aberdeen. The event...

Bo, Kono, Tonkolili, Port Loko, Freetown lead Hepatitis B

 AYV News, July 31, 2025 Newly released health data to mark World Hepatitis Day has revealed that Bo, Kono, Tonkolili, Port Loko, and the Western Rural District carry...

Sierra Leone boosts Mpox response with 50,000 new vaccine doses

 AYV News, July 22, 2025 In a continued effort to combat the rising cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), Sierra Leone has received an...

Over 133,710 vaccinated against Mpox in Sierra Leone

AYV News, July 15, 2025 A total of 133,710 individuals across Sierra Leone have received the first dose of the Mpox vaccine through two rounds...

Sierra Leone appointed to Global Fund Strategy Committee

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has officially appointed Professor Dr. Charles Edward Lahai Senessie as a Member of its Strategy...

Mpox Vaccine stock-out threatens progress against epidemic

 AYV News, July 8, 2025 The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has raised concerns over the shortage of Mpox vaccines at...

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints refurbishes Connaught’s ICU 

AYV News, June 30, 2025 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has refurbished and handed over to the Government of Sierra Leone, the...

Ahead of SFC 2025:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints refurbishesConnaught’s ICU 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has refurbished and handed over to the Government of Sierra Leone, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Connaught Hospital in...

WAHO donates Thermostats to Sierra Leone’s Mpox fight

The West African Health Organization (WHO), through its Regional Center for Surveilance and Disease Control (RCSDC), has boosted Sierra Leone’s Mpox response efforts with...

CCTV Cameras at Cottage Hospital to combat child theft

 AYV News, June 23, 2024 In a proactive move to address the rising incidents of child thefts at hospitals nationwide, Inspector General of Police, William Fayia...