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The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [2] finds that Sierra Leone is fulfilling 62.1% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. [3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Sierra Leone achieves 76.8% of what is expected based on its current income. [4]
Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone launched large-scale malaria vaccine programmes on Thursday under an Africa-focused initiative that hopes to save tens of thousands of children's lives per year ...
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates and Anopheles mosquitoes. [6] [7] [3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. [1] [8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death.
The use of traditional medicine in Sierra Leone is common especially for the treatment of malaria [10] and among hypertensive patients, [11] pregnant women, [12] infertile women [13] lactating mothers, [14] Ebola survivors [15] and healthcare students. [16] [17]
According to the World Malaria Report 2020 [2] published by the World Health Organization, despite tremendous progress in reducing malaria around the world, since 2015 this progress has slowed, stalling in the last three years. Current interventions, such as drug treatments, bed nets and insecticide spraying, have helped to lower the burden of ...
PMI works closely with national malaria programs and global partners including the World Health Organization, Roll Back Malaria, and Global Fund. [4] Global malaria efforts, including those of PMI, have cut malaria mortality by over 60%, saved nearly 7 million lives, and prevented more than 1 billion malaria cases between 2000 and 2015. [5]
Malen Chiefdom is a chiefdom in Pujehun District of Sierra Leone under supervision of Chief B.V.S. Kebby (Kebbie) [2] with a population of 22,090. [1] Its principal town is Sahn. The chiefdom is located west of the town of Pujehun. The primary economic activity is subsistence farming. [3] The largest employer is Socfin, a palm oil producer.
Habitat degradation for the African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, has increased, such that this canid is deemed to have been extirpated in Sierra Leone. [6] Until 2002, Sierra Leone lacked a forest management system because of the civil war that caused tens of thousands of deaths. Deforestation rates have increased by 7.3% since the end of the civil ...