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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 be provided. Dissatisfied members of the...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

“Sierra Leone has not recorded any case of Monkey Pox…” Health Authorities confirm

AYV News, August 21, 2024 L-R: WHO Rep, Health Minister, Executive Director MPHA   With imminent threat of Monkey Pox (Mpox) in the African Region, Sierra Leone’s...

First Lady receives comprehensive Breast Cancer Center Proposal

AYV News, August 16, 2024 A delegation from Roche, a multinational healthcare company, visited the Goderich office of Sierra Leone’s Dr. Fatima Maada Bio to...

Freetown Mayor congratulates Youth Climate Fund Winners

Mayor of Freetown, Her Worship Yvonne Aki-Sawyer has congratulated and presented cheques to the 9 winners of the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, launched...

In Sierra Leone: Over 1 million people live with Chronic Hepatitis B

AYV News, July 31, 2024 Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation has said approximately 13.8% (about 1.1 million people) of the population of...

Mudslide at Moyiba, at least 6 houses buried

Sierra Leone has again recorded a major landslide in one of the country’s mountain communities called Moyiba. The heavy downpour past weekend caused a landslide...

UNICEF hands over $300,000 worth of equipment to Health Ministry

UNICEF Sierra Leone has handed over oxygen therapy equipment and accessories worth over $300,000 to the Ministry of Health. The equipment and accessories include 64...