Sierra Leone

Isatu Bangura was illiterate when she joined Advancing Partners & Communities' adult literacy program for Ebola survivors in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Now, she can read and write simple sentences and is on the path to self-reliance.

Sorie Samura is a referral coordinator in charge of referrals from peripheral health units and district hospitals across Sierra Leone for all Ebola survivors requiring tertiary care.

A Survivor Advocate helped Ebola survivor Dora Dumbuya access appropriate health services—and ultimately surgery that saved her life.

Mariatu Conteh received life-saving dialysis under the Free Health Care Initiative with the help of Referral Coordinator Momoh Brima in Sierra Leone.

February 07, 2018
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In order to support the mental health needs of those affected by the mudslide in Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the World Health Organization with funding from the UK Government, JSI and USAID quickly deployed Mental Health Nurses pulled from other parts of the country to provide urgent Psychological First Aid, focusing initially on psychosocial and trauma counselling.

GOAL support Ministry of Health and Sanitation and Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender, and Children’s Affairs in the implementation of the Comprehensive Program for Ebola Survivors (CPES) in Western Area Urban.

Save the Children support Ministry of Health and Sanitation and Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender, and Children’s Affairs in the implementation of the Comprehensive Program for Ebola Survivors (CPES) in Western Area Rural.

PiH provide support to enable the roll-out of mental health and neurology capacity building and performance improvement program for health care workers (nurses and physicians) providing services to Ebola survivors and other Ebola-affected individuals at the secondary and tertiary level in Sierra Leone.

The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership provides support to enable the roll-out of mental health and neurology capacity building and performance improvement program for health care workers (nurses and physicians) providing services to Ebola survivors and other Ebola-affected individuals at the secondary and tertiary level in Sierra Leone.

ACF improves the availability of quality Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) services to communities and improves physical and operational conditions within health facilities in Western Area (WA) - Urban, Sierra Leone. ACF builds capacity of the health workforce by supporting pre-service training institutes, formal trainings and refresher trainings, on-the-job coaching, and joint supportive supervision.

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