Sierra Leone

GOAL improves the availability of high quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) services within health posts and communities in Port Loko District through increasing the capacity and effectiveness of the health workforce and community platforms and improving physical and operational conditions in health posts to enhance the safety and quality of services.

Save the Children improves the availability of quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) services in Western Area Rural (WR) District in Sierra Leone by implementing Local Initiatives for Community Health (LINC-Health). This initiative targets 22 community health posts (CHPs) and maternal CHPs (MCHPs) in underserved parts of WR, with a comprehensive recovery investment in the capacity of health staff and their established community platforms to enhance safety and quality of health services.

IMC improves the availability of high quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) services within health posts and communities in Port Loko District through increasing the capacity and effectiveness of the health workforce and community platforms and improving physical and operational conditions in health posts to enhance the safety and quality of services.

ADRA improve the availability of high quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) services within health posts and communities in Tonkolili District, focusing on six areas of intervention: health post assessment and evaluation; health post renovation and rehabilitation; clinical capacity building for health posts; community health work program support, management and coordination; and community engagement.

Project Highlight

Sorie Samura is one of less than 70 health workers who contracted EVD and survived. He is now back in active service working as a Referral Coordinator for King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP) at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, the largest government hospital in Sierra Leone.

January 19, 2018
Article

Sorie Samura is one of less than 70 health workers who contracted Ebola and survived. He is now back in active service working as a Referral Coordinator for King’s Sierra Leone Partnership at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, the largest government hospital in Sierra Leone and its main teaching and referral hospital.

Journal Article

Advancing Partners & Communities has supported mental health nurses in responding to the mudslide disaster in Sierra Leone.

Project Highlight

The USAID-funded Advancing Partners & Communities project provided support to revitalize the Benguima Grassfield maternal and child health post with infrastructure renovations, improved access to water, sanitation, and solar electricity, as well as capacity building of health professionals and community health workers.

Brief

This brief includes background, interventions, and results of APC’s support to the Sierra Leone Association of Ebola Survivors (SLAES). Based on a needs and capacity assessment conducted jointly by APC and PIH in December 2016, the project identified six priority areas for organizational capacity building.

Brief

Background, interventions, and results of APC's work in mental health in Sierra Leone, including the community healing dialogues and training in psychological first aid at Peripheral Health Units (PHUs).

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