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Health

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...