During the EBK meeting from the day before, we learned about Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) and Focus1000 and their overall potential as partners. Today, we had a meeting scheduled with one of CHAMPS’s most valuable players as we continue to discuss the strategy we had from the day before. In the morning, […]

We had originally planned to meet with our contact from EKB, a local university. According to SHAFS, she was the medical advisor fortheir advocacy efforts and maintained certain connections to the Ministry of Health. However, with it nearing the end of the school year here in Sierra Leone, she was very busy grading and working […]

We started our day at World Hope this morning and awaited a meeting with the Holy Spirit Hospital. With some last minute preparations and thought, we gathered our belongings and piled into the car. This would be our first meeting with a hospital in Sierra Leone. We arrived at the hospital, where we were greeted […]

To begin our day, we traveled out to the Panlap PHU with our driver William. As we drove through the market of Makeni, people were walking everywhere. The stores of Makeni were bustling with activity as William weaved through traffic. Once we had passed the market, the activity slowly waned as we approached the PHU. […]

After a long flight, we landed in Freetown tired yet excited for the days to come. Once we obtained our visas and made our way through the rest of the airport, we met with Khanjan, Eric, and World Hope faculty. They helped us load our bags as we prepared to head into Makeni. As we […]

Today was our final work day in Makeni. We only had Makeni Regional Government scheduled for the day, so we were able to get some rest after our Freetown trip and begin our day at 10:30. We traveled to the hospital with Prof. Mehta and the AISHA team, since they were also doing a presentation […]

Tuesday was a slow day for the team. Anticipating our beach trip on Wednesday, we wanted to tie off as many loose ends as possible while also preparing for our workshop at Makeni Regional Hospital on Thursday. Thus, most of Tuesday was spent updating our presentation and making sure our blogs were up to date.  […]

In the morning, we started off by meeting with the medical research unit of Masanga, and we met two female researchers from Europe. One was a medical doctor from the Netherlands pursuing her PhD, who was currently in Africa to do fever-related research. The other woman was a medical student from Germany who was focusing […]