CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile: Sierra Leone: September 2022

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Global HIV & TB. ; \U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
• Description:
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began working in Sierra Leone in 2008 through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). A permanent country office, established in 2015, supports the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS). CDC’s HIV and tuberculosis (TB) technical assistance focuses on:
  
  • Providing technical assistance and enhancing partner coordination at the national and district levels
  
  • Implementing effective prevention programs by improving HIV testing and preventing mother-to-child transmission
  
  • Strengthening surveillance, program monitoring, and evaluation
  
  • Improving care and treatment services including HIV/TB diagnosis, and antiretroviral therapy
  
  • Enhancing point of care laboratory testing for multidrug-resistant TB, extensively drug-resistant TB, and HIV/TB co-infection
  
  • Building high-quality laboratory systems to support HIV and TB testing
  
  Sierra-Leone.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Global Health HIV Infections/prevention & Control Public Health Tuberculosis/prevention & Control
• Series:
  CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  United States. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. ; United States. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Sierra Leone
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/124445/cdc_124445_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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