Liberia

  • 20 Dec 2016

    New Ebola vaccine offers 100% protection

    Country: 
    Guinea
    Liberia
    Sierra Leone
    Topics: 
    Health
    Body: 
    The 2014 Ebola epidemic cost the lives of more than 11 000 West Africans. Researchers now have developed a vaccine that they consider to offer 100% protection against the disease. A trial involving nearly 12 000 people was conducted by the WHO and partners in Guinea. No Ebola cases were recorded 10 days or more after vaccination of nearly 6 000 people who received the new vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV. Read on
  • 31 Oct 2016

    Most Liberian youth fail university entrance exam

    Country: 
    Liberia
    Topics: 
    Culture & Society
    Education
    Children & Youth
    Body: 
    In Liberia, 42 000 candidates took the exam that is common for all of the region’s English-speaking countries for entrance into West African universities, but only one person managed to score at the level required to move on to university. This massive underperformance has revealed the flaws in the country’s education system, which is experiencing a shortage of teachers and suffers from a lack of basic educational facilities. Read on
  • 23 Sep 2016

    Building synergy in the West African health sector

    Country: 
    Côte d'Ivoire
    Guinea
    Liberia
    Sierra Leone
    Topics: 
    Health
    Members: 
    ECOWAS
    Body: 
    On 16 September, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is also the current ECOWAS Chairwoman, met in Monrovia with Xavier Crespin, the Director General of the West African Health Organization (WAHO). President Sirleaf said that it is important to have more coherence between the health plans of individual West African countries and the plans of regional and international organisations. Read on
  • 05 Apr 2016

    Guinea and Liberia report new Ebola cases

    Country: 
    Guinea
    Liberia
    Topics: 
    Health
    Body: 
    Several new cases of Ebola were detected in Guinea in March and in Liberia in early April, just weeks after the end of a resurgence of the epidemic in Sierra Leone. These outbreaks, which had been anticipated by WHO because of the persistence of the virus in some survivors, are a real test for health authorities in the countries. Read on

Pages