Overview
The Council began work in Sierra Leone in mid-2005. Current and past Council programming in Sierra Leone focuses on delivery of family planning services.
Health officials from Sierra Leone have been applying the lessons learned from the Council’s well-regarded Community-based Health Planning and Services initiative, based in Ghana, to increase access to family planning services. Council staff also are working with the Ministry of Health to identify strategies for integrating condoms (both male and female) into the reproductive health and HIV and AIDS national program.
Highlights of past and present work
- Providing a framework for increased access to family planning services.
- Developing a national strategic plan and five-year strategic plans for male and female condoms.
- Identifying potential new condom distribution mechanisms, new actors (including NGOs, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, health providers, and private-sector outlets), and the skills and management needs of program managers.
Banner photo: © Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
Projects
Comprehensive Condom Programming in West Africa (more)
This Council project identified strategies for re-integrating the female and male condom in the national reproductive health and HIV and AIDS programs of Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Mauritania, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
(1/2008 - 12/2008)
Access to contraceptive methods; Condoms (male and female); Scaling up interventions
Resources
Adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people--Sierra Leone 2008 (PDF) (HTML)Publication date: 2010
Transferring Ghana's system of evidence-based health program development: Program for an initial exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso (PDF)
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2005
Doing more with less: The Marie Stopes Clinics in Sierra Leone (PDF)
Toubia,Nahid; Delano,Grace Ebun
Quality/Calidad/Qualité (no. 7)
Publication date: 1995
Sierra Leone Fast Facts
| Population (millions) | 6.1 |
|---|---|
| Total fertility rate | 5.0 |
| Infant deaths per 1,000 live births | 109 |
| Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births | 970 |
| Girls aged 20-24 married by age 18 (%) | 47.9 |
| HIV/AIDS prevalence (%) | 1.6 |
| Living below US $2 per day (%) | 76 |
Country statistics from Demographic and Health Surveys, 1987–2011; UNAIDS and UNICEF websites (accessed 10/22/2012); "World Population Data Sheet" (Population Reference Bureau, 2012) | |
What's New
- "Sometimes, all that stands between a survivor and the help she needs are a few simple questions." The Council’s Chi-Chi Undie discusses intimate partner violence in Africa in a blog post on RH Reality Check. (offsite link)
- 31 January 2013 | Bixby fellowship application deadline: The Council’s Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program expands training opportunities for social scientists and biomedical researchers in the health and population fields. The program is geared toward developing-country nationals in the early stages of their careers. (more)
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