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Sierra Leone:

IMF Staff Country Reports
This paper highlights Sierra Leone’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy. The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) has launched a new Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP). Crucial lessons have been learned in the implementation of the previous plan 2019-2023 that are important for the current acceleration and transformative plan to deliver a ...
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Sierra Leone

IMF Staff Country Reports, 1997
This paper reviews economic developments in Sierra Leone during 1994–96. The disruption to agriculture at the start of the rebel war precipitated negative growth in 1991/92 and 1992/93. The relatively peaceful conditions that prevailed in 1993/94 brought a rebound in agriculture as well as in diamond mining activities.
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Circulating Vaccine‐Derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2) Outbreak Response With Novel Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Type 2 (nOPV2), Sierra Leone's Experience

Public Health Challenges
Background In March 2024, a circulating vaccine‐derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was isolated in environmental samples (ESs) collected at the Mabella Sawmill Bridge environmental surveillance (ES) site. The Ministry of Health and its partners responded
Desmond M. Kangbai, Edwin N. Sesay, Nella Clemens‐Kangbai, Andrew K. Kemoh, Sallu Lansana, Hassan Benya, Aminata Nunie, Joyce M. Kallon, Edna G. Samuels, Amanda Clemens, Michael Jones, Braima Patrick Kanneh, Peter B. James, Andrew Alfred Nyakeh Jimmy, Mohamed T. M. Kallay, Tom Sesay   +15 more
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Factors associated with antiretroviral therapy default in the 34-Military Hospital, Sierra Leone, 2017-2020

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a group of medicines used to treat people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). ART reduces the mortality and morbidity of people living with HIV. Defaulting on ART means an HIV-positive patient who
Henry Bangura, Fatmata Bangura, Jean Leonard Hakizimana, Adel Hussein Elduma, Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru   +4 more
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Routine vitamin A supplementation and other high impact interventions in Sierra Leone

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2020
In 2017, transition to routine vitamin A supplementation (VAS) commenced as an integrated reproductive and child health service including vaccinations, Albendazole for deworming, complementary feeding demonstrations, ‘quality’ family planning counselling
Aminata S. Koroma, Sulaiman G. Conteh, Mariama Bah, Habib I. Kamara, Mohamed Turay, Abdulai Kandeh, Anna Macauley, Henry Allieu, Anita A. Kargbo, Mustapha Sonnie, Mary H. Hodges   +10 more
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Factors associated with COVID-19 deaths in Sierra Leone, March 2020 - March 2022

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health emergency that has claimed millions of lives. In Sierra Leone, limited information exists on the factors associated with COVID-19 deaths.
Stephen Lawrence Musa Kamara, Adel Hussein Elduma, Umaru Sesay, Binta Bah, Joel Francis Mansaray, Magoba Bridget, James Sylvester Squire, Amara Alhaji Sheriff, Solomon Aiah Sogbeh, Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru   +9 more
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Sierra Leone [PDF]

IMF Staff Country Reports, 2014
This paper discusses Sierra Leone’s First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement, Request for Modification of Performance Criteria (PC), and Financing Assurances Review. Program performance has been strong. All PCs were met with comfortable margins, and all indicative targets (ITs) were met, except for the one on poverty-related ...
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Sierra Leone: A Political History

, 2019
NoSierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small West African state. On the
Harris, David
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The impact on key indicators of reproductive and child health after changes in program modalities in Sierra Leone, 2019

Health Science Reports, 2021
Background and aims In 2018, the transition to routine vitamin A supplementation (VAS) was integrated with caregivers' preparation of nutritious complementary food from local produce and confidential counseling and provision of modern contraceptives.
Aminata S. Koroma, Habib I. Kamara, Francis Moses, Mariama Bah, Mohamed Turay, Abdulai Kandeh, Shekuba Kandeh, Henry Allieu, Anita Kargbo, Anna MaCauley, Mary H. Hodges, David Doledec   +11 more
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Evaluating treatment outcomes stratified by regimen among drug-resistant TB patients in Sierra Leone

Public Health Action
SETTING: Sierra Leone has a high burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), managed at three treatment centres. OBJECTIVE: To compare treatment success between BPaL (bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid)/BPaLM (bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and ...
J.A. Koroma, B.D. Fofanah, D. Nair, E.M. Kamau, I.F. Kamara, M.A. Sesay, I.S. Turay, N. Sesay, F. Kanu, W.K. Lahai, J.S. Kanu, A.T. Koroma, F. Fornah, A.L. Seisay, S.S. Bailor, R. Harding, S. Emezue, G.B. Tefera, G. Ameh, M. Mazzi, S. Lakoh, M. Mahmoud   +21 more
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