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Institutionalized data quality assessments: a critical pathway to improving the accuracy of integrated disease surveillance data in Sierra Leone

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Public health agencies require valid, timely and complete health information for early detection of outbreaks. Towards the end of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in 2015, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), Sierra Leone ...
Charles Njuguna, Mohamed Vandi, Malimbo Mugagga, Joseph Kanu, Evans Liyosi, Alexander Chimbaru, Wilson Gachari, Victor Caulker, Stephen Sesay, Jane Githuku, Zabulon Yoti, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Ambrose Talisuna, Ibrahima Socé Fall   +13 more
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Rebuilding after emergency: Revamping agricultural research in Sierra Leone after civil war [PDF]

"The civil war in Sierra Leone, caused by a mix of political, social, and economic factors, had a huge impact on the overall economy in general and on the performance of the agricultural sector in particular.
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Rhodes, Edward, Sutherland, John, Workneh, Sindu   +3 more
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What Happens to Class When a Language Dies? Language Change vs. Language Death [PDF]

, 2009
This paper presents the first documentation of the noun class system of the dying language Mani (buy), Bullom So in Ethnologue, a.k.a. Mmani, Mandenyi, etc. spoken in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Childs, George Tucker
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Assessing the implementation of an electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response System using DHIS2, 2024: Sierra Leone´s experience

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: The Sierra Leone Ministry of Health has transitioned disease surveillance reporting from a paper-based system to an electronic one. The electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (eIDSR) system was developed to enable the early
Bridget Magoba, Joseph Sam Kanu, James Sylvester Squire, Stephen Abdul Regis Sesay, Ian Njeru, Robert Musoke, Charles Njuguna, Victor Caulker, Adel Hussein Elduma, Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru   +9 more
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Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone? [PDF]

Sierra Leone, conflict, government, aid ...
Hanlon, Joseph
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Comparison of social resistance to Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Guinea suggests explanations lie in political configurations not culture [PDF]

, 2016
Sierra Leone and Guinea share broadly similar cultural worlds, straddling the societies of the Upper Guinea Coast with Islamic West Africa. There was, however, a notable difference in their reactions to the Ebola epidemic.
Abraham A., Annie Wilkinson, Fairhead J., Harris D., Højbjerg C. K., Iffono A. G., James Fairhead, Reno W., Richards P., Shaw R.   +9 more
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Scaling up of electronic case-based disease surveillance reporting for COVID-19 and other notifiable diseases through capacity building and antigen RDT provision: a case study of Sierra Leone

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionElectronic case-based disease surveillance (eCBDS) provides timely and detailed data collection on diseases and their risk factors for control actions.
James Sylvester Squire, Ian Njeru, Robert Musoke, Joseph Sam Kanu, Fatmata Bangura, Zikan Koroma, Doris Harding, Stephen Sesay, Bridget Magoba, Ismail Mahat Bashir, Victor Caulker, Mohamed Vandi, Innocent Bright Nuwagira, Charles Njuguna   +13 more
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Two new species of Fissidens (Fissidentaceae, Musci) from Africa : Fissidens harringtonii and Fissidens artsii [PDF]

, 2005
Fissidens harringtonii from Sierra Leone and F. artsii from Réunion are newly described and illustrated. The taxonomic position of F. harringtonii and F. integerrimus Mitten in Hook.f & Wilson, with which it is compared, is discussed. Fissidens artsii is
Bruggeman-Nannenga, Maria A.
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Domestic Work Time in Sierra Leone [PDF]

The objective of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of domestic work time in Sierra Leone using a 2003-2004 household survey that for the first time provides information on time use.
Wodon, Quentin, Ying, Yvonne
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SSR and post-conflict Reconstruction: armed wing of state-building?\ud [PDF]

, 2010
This paper directly challenges some of the popular Security Sector Reform (SSR) mythology that has grown around the UK’s involvement in Sierra Leone and the subsequent policy developments associated with SSR.
Jackson, Paul B
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