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Interagency technical consultation on improving mortality reporting in Sierra Leone: meeting report

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
By the end of the Ebola epidemic, death reporting in Sierra Leone (SL) became more acceptable amongst local populations, with nearly all deaths being reported to the Ebola hot line alert centers.
Yonas Asfaw, Isaac Boateng, Mauricio Calderon, Grazia Caleo, Lamin Allan Conteh, Salifu Conteh, Foday Dafae, Achintya Dey, Nadia Duffy, Daffney Davies, Patrick Fatoma, John Fleming, Boima Gogra, Yelena Gorina, Anna Grigoryan, Sara Hersey, Sam Hoare, Sonnia-Magba Bu-Buakei Jabbi, Amara Jambai, Joseph Jasperse, Reinhard Kaiser, Gandi Kallon, Ansumana Kamara, Fatmata Zara Kamara, Isata Pamela Kamara, Wogba Kamara, Joseph Kandeh, Mustapha Kanu, Mabinty Kargbo, Samuel Kargbo, Richard, Simeon Kuyembeh, Patrick Lansana, Fiona Mclysaght, Sheena McCann, Alhaji Samuka Nallo, Stephanie Ngai, Erin Nichols, Charles Njuguna, Shikanga O-Tipo, Sulaiman Parker, Nuzhat Rafique, John Redd, Thomas Samba, Kerry Souza, Alex Tran, Chief Mathew Gibao Younge   +46 more
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Adolescent girls’ perceptions of the COVID-19 infodemic in Sierra Leone: a qualitative study in urban, peri-urban and rural Sierra Leone

BMJ Open
Objective This study aimed to identify the primary sources of COVID-19 health information for adolescent girls in Sierra Leone and evaluate their perceived trustworthiness and influence on their behaviour.Design Using a convenience sampling strategy ...
Regina Mamidy Yillah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Beryl Reindorf, Alhaji Sawaneh, Mary Hamer Hodges, Hamid Turay   +5 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACT OF EXCHANGE RATE AND INFLATION ON COMMERCIAL BANKS’ PERFORMANCE IN SIERRA LEONE

Journal of Smart Economic Growth, 2021
This study was initiated with the intention of examining the impact of exchange rate and inflation on the performance of commercial banks in Sierra Leone.
Emerson Abraham Jackson, Mohamed Samba Barrie, Leroy Johnson   +2 more
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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High levels of unfavourable treatment outcomes in children with drug-sensitive TB in Sierra Leone

Public Health Action
SETTING: Ola During Children’s Hospital, a tertiary-level paediatric facility affiliated with a university and located in Freetown, Sierra Leone. No published studies from Sierra Leone have evaluated treatment outcomes in children (
N. Sesay, I.F. Kamara, A.M.V. Kumar, P. Thekkur, A.A. Alwani, B.D. Fofanah, A.R.Y. Kamara, A. Bah, L. Farma-Grant, M.A. Sesay, W.K. Lahai, J.A. Koroma, S.M. Tengbe, F. Kanu, G. Ameh, S.M. Kanneh, R. Zachariah, M. Mahmoud   +17 more
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Design‐based implementation research for digitally enabled education reform: Teacher professional development in Tanzania

British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Design‐based implementation research (DBIR) offers a promising approach for refining and theorising the implementation and scale‐up of education interventions. However, integrating technology into national education reforms in resource‐constrained contexts adds complexity, involving multiple government bodies, implementers and researchers with
Taskeen Adam, Sara Hennessy, Kristeen Chachage, Winston Massam, Calvin Swai, Fredrick Mtenzi, Jonathan Hegwa Paskali, Aneth Komba, Saalim Koomar, Fika Mwakabungu   +9 more
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Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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Development of a cognitive behavioral therapy intervention among pregnant women in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone

Cogent Mental Health
In rural, poor, largely illiterate Pujehun District of Sierra Leone there were no interventions available for perinatal depression (PND). To address this need, Project Peanut Butter established a counseling service.
Ashleen Lee, Aminata Shamit Koroma, Joshua A. Duncan, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Mohamed Tabita Kamara, Eliza Kleban, Christa Lolley, Kristin Kohlmann, Jumeika Lopez-Arteaga, Kevin Stephenson, Mark J. Manary   +10 more
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