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08 July 2020
FAO donates personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect healthcare workers responding to COVID-19 pandemic Freetown – Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experience and expertise in strengthening communities’ safety nets and resilience to food insecurity, in food safety and trade can help efforts to safeguard people’s food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Thus FAO is reorganizing its humanitarian and resilience programming...
FAO donates personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect healthcare workers responding to COVID-19 pandemic Freetown – Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experience and expertise in strengthening communities’ safety nets and resilience to food insecurity, in food safety and trade can help efforts to safeguard people’s food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Thus FAO is reorganizing its humanitarian and resilience programming...
20 March 2020
FAO refurbished the unit with modern electronic equipment/furniture and personnel trained and skilled in epidemiology disciplines. Freetown – To complement the Government of Sierra Leona’s efforts to improve surveillance, reporting and control of infectious animal diseases, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over the newly created epidemiology unit to the Ministry of...
FAO refurbished the unit with modern electronic equipment/furniture and personnel trained and skilled in epidemiology disciplines. Freetown – To complement the Government of Sierra Leona’s efforts to improve surveillance, reporting and control of infectious animal diseases, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over the newly created epidemiology unit to the Ministry of...
13 March 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) concluded a training workshop on Event Mobile Application (EMA-i) to improve animal diseases real-time reporting, early warning and surveillance. With funding support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) concluded a training workshop on Event Mobile Application (EMA-i) to improve animal diseases real-time reporting, early warning and surveillance. With funding support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
29 January 2020
Following Lassa fever outbreak in November 2019, the Government of Sierra Leone requested for technical, financial and logistical support from FAO Accra – Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus. Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus through exposure to food or household items contaminated with urine or...
Following Lassa fever outbreak in November 2019, the Government of Sierra Leone requested for technical, financial and logistical support from FAO Accra – Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus. Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus through exposure to food or household items contaminated with urine or...
13 December 2019
After thorough laboratory investigations done on 72 serum and 24 blood samples collected from pigs, Sierra Leone confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in November 2019. This is the first time that a national laboratory has confirmed the virus in the country without shipping samples abroad for investigation....
After thorough laboratory investigations done on 72 serum and 24 blood samples collected from pigs, Sierra Leone confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in November 2019. This is the first time that a national laboratory has confirmed the virus in the country without shipping samples abroad for investigation....
