West Africa Medical Missions worked to ensure that the key messages about safety and protection from infection were made available to community of persons with disabilities.
In recent months, both Liberia and Sierra Leone have seen an increase in maternal and infant deaths as a high number of pregnant women choose to deliver outside of hospitals and clinics
Tackling Sierra Leone's mental health issues and stigma will be a major task, not least because many of the true roots of mental illness lie in the population's experience of brutal violence, ongoing poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, and other forms of social disruption.
The West Africa Medical Missions (WAMM) with support from Christian Blind Mission (CBM) yesterday started a 10-day working session for forty physically challenged persons from various communities in Freetown on building resilience against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
“The impact has been really horrible,” Warren said Saturday in a Skype call from Sierra Leone. “Once a lot of those statements were made, people just pulled out.”
WAMM’s mission of bringing international volunteers together with local students and health professionals to address community health issues is a natural fit for EPPA’s Scribe Program.
