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    Saving mothers' lives: things can go wrong.
    (National Institutes of Health, 1998) Konteh, R
    One of the goals of Sierra Leone's primary care programme, established in the 1980s, was to reduce maternal mortality by 30% by the end of the twentieth century, but no significant progress has been made in this direction. The reasons are examined below in the light of a study conducted in one of the country's Chiefdoms.
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    A Global Declaration on Appropriate Use of Antimicrobial Agents across the Surgical Pathway
    (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2017-11-01) Group, Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery Working
    This declaration, signed by an interdisciplinary task force of 234 experts from 83 different countries with different backgrounds, highlights the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance and the need for appropriate use of antibiotic agents and antifungal agents in hospitals worldwide especially focusing on surgical infections. As such, it is our intent to raise awareness among healthcare workers and improve antimicrobial prescribing. To facilitate its dissemination, the declaration was translated in different languages.
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    Pupils’ Knowledge Level about the Contraindicationsof Cardiovascular Diseases of the HeartlikeDilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM), Hypertensive Heart Disease (HHD) and Pulmonary Heart Disease (PHD) as Health Education Strategy in Preventive Health
    (2017-07-06) Joseph, Bebeley Samuel
    **Aim:** The objective of this study was to point out pupils' knowledge level about the contraindications of cardiovascular diseases of the heart like Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM), Hypertensive Heart Disease (HHD) and Pulmonary Heart Disease (PHD) as health education strategy in preventive health cased at University Secondary School, Njala.Method: The researcher interviewed mainly high school pupils with a sampled number of one hundred and twenty (n=120).46% (n=55) female and 54% (n=65) male; 67% (n=80) Christians; 33% (n=40) Muslims; were selected using the stratified random sampling.Also stratified were58% (n=70) from the option Pure Science-to-General Science;42% (n=50) from the option Social Science-to-Applied Art; 29.2% (n=35) from SSS(One-to-Two); 70.8% (n=85) from SSS(Three-to-Four);62.8% (n=75) within the age circle of (13-to-17);37.5% (n=45) within the age circle of (18-to-25+) in years.Results: The variables of the finding were tested@ level of significance p < 0.05 through a statistical instrument of T-test.Analysis from the study objective, shows negative skewedness in all three variables as placed in tabulated values (t-scores of-0.802,0.529 and 2.129) of 2, 4 and 6 when tested@p < 0.05.Conclusion: In summing up due to the negative skewedness in all of the variables tested, the finding has demonstrated majority view of high school pupils' low level of knowledge about the contraindications of cardiovascular diseases of the heart as health education strategy in preventive health cased at University Secondary School.The researchers recommend that health education as a teaching subject be included in the schools' curriculum to help in the teaching of preventive health to school pupils.
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    Use of the FilmArray System for Detection of Zaire ebolavirus in a Small Hospital in Bo, Sierra Leone
    (American Society for Microbiology, 2015-05-14) Łęski, Tomasz A.
    Laboratories associated with small hospitals often have limited expertise, personnel, and equipment to rapidly identify rare and emerging infectious diseases. We describe the successful use of the FilmArray system for rapid detection of Ebola virus directly from clinical samples in 6 out of 83 tested subjects in a small health care center in Sierra Leone.