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Assessment of the Public Health Laboratory Capacity - Sierra Leone, 2021.
China CDC Wkly
January 2025
Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Public health laboratories (PHLs) are critical for effectively identifying, detecting, preventing, and responding to emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone implemented a national laboratory strategic plan (2015-2020) aimed at creating, strengthening, and maintaining laboratory capacities for detecting, assessing, notifying, and reporting incidents, with a requirement to review PHL capabilities every five years.
What Is Added By This Report?: This study assessed the comprehensive capacity and personnel status of PHLs in Sierra Leone using a standardized assessment tool following the implementation of the 2015 National Laboratory Strategic Plan.
Public health system in post-pandemic Sierra Leone: a scoping review.
BMC Infect Dis
December 2024
Department of Public Health, Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone.
Background: Since the outbreak of the novel SARS-CoV-2 that caused COVID-19 in 2019, the government of Sierra Leone implemented immediate preventive measures to stop the disease from entering the country. On March 24, 2020, the country declared a state of emergency in response to the emerging global COVID-19 pandemic, even though no confirmed cases had been reported at that time. However, Sierra Leone recorded its first COVID-19 case later in March 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSystematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Female Reproductive Health Following Ebola Virus Disease.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
December 2024
Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Article Synopsis
- The systematic review focuses on reproductive health issues faced by female survivors of Lassa fever and Ebola virus disease.
- Thirteen studies reviewed predominantly highlight negative outcomes related to reproductive health among EVD survivors, including menstrual irregularities and pregnancy loss, with no research identified on LF survivors.
- The analysis indicates that about 14% of female EVD survivors experience adverse reproductive health outcomes, revealing a significant need for further research in this area.
Corneal and conjunctival abnormalities in a cohort of survivors from the Western African Ebola virus disease outbreak.
AJO Int
December 2024
Truhlsen Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Purpose: To characterize corneal and conjunctival abnormalities (CCAs) and their impact on visual acuity in a cohort of survivors from the Western African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak.
Design: A post hoc analysis of 121 patients, who had previously undergone screening for the Ebola Virus Persistence in Ocular Tissues and Fluids study, was performed.
Methods: Patients underwent a comprehensive ophthalmic exam at the Lowell and Ruth Gess Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Ebola disease: bridging scientific discoveries and clinical application.
Lancet Infect Dis
December 2024
Pandemic Sciences Institute, Oxford, UK.
The west Africa Ebola disease epidemic (2014-16) marked a historic change of course for patient care during emerging infectious disease outbreaks. The epidemic response was a failure in many ways-a slow, cumbersome, and disjointed effort by a global architecture that was not fit for purpose for a rapidly spreading outbreak. In the most affected countries, health-care workers and other responders felt helpless-dealing with an overwhelming number of patients but with few, if any, tools at their disposal to provide high-quality care.
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