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Sierra Leone

Programs

A community health officer at the Lunsar Community Health Center in Port Loko district performs routine temperature monitoring for a solar refrigerator procured and installed by EpiC Sierra Leone. Photo by PSI for EpiC.

COVID-19

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Period of performance: July 2022 – October 2024

Achievements

Contributed to a national increase in COVID-19 vaccination coverage from 34.2% to over 90% across all 16 districts in Sierra Leone through demand generation and community engagement; training vaccination staff and establishing additional vaccination teams to conduct outreach; providing logistics and last mile delivery of vaccination and other health supplies; supporting planning and coordination meetings for vaccination staff; providing cold chain equipment to hard-to-reach health facilities; supporting logistics and needs for COVID-19 surge and periodic routine immunization campaigns; and conducting outreach at non-health locations, such as weekly markets.

Facilitated COVID-19 vaccine service delivery by providing fuel and per diem for Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) vaccinators; procuring and installing solar refrigerators in 22 health facilities; and delivering COVID-19 and other routine immunization supplies to national and district-level warehouses across all 16 districts in the country. These efforts resulted in the administration of 1,057,263 doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

Reached nearly two million unique social media users with a well-designed, context appropriate video called “A Tale of Two Doses,” which promotes the uptake of second doses of COVID-19 vaccination.

Built the capacity of 432 frontline public health workers across all 16 districts for effective and timely COVID-19 vaccine data entry into the government’s existing DHIS-2-based digital routine immunization data platform.

Recruited, trained, and managed 160 data entry clerks, who cleared the backlog of COVID-19 immunization records from 3.5 million to less than 1 million records within four months, in collaboration with EPI and UNICEF Sierra Leone.


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Video: A Tale of Two DosesView

Technical areas

COVID-19 vaccination

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