{"id":2059,"date":"2022-02-04T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:04:25","slug":"us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases","title":{"rendered":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>By Amin Kef Sesay<\/b><\/p>\n

In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United States Government, through the Agency for International Development (USAID), has supported the Government of Sierra Leone by providing medicines to entire communities through campaigns every year to eliminate several neglected tropical diseases.<\/p>\n

The statement continued that because of the partnership with the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health, 12 districts have successfully reduced transmission of lymphatic filariasis (known locally as \u201cbigfoot\u201d), meaning children living in these districts will grow up without the risk of being infected.<\/p>\n

It furthered that additionally, through 14 campaigns to distribute medicines for river blindness, 5.5 million Sierra Leoneans are receiving annual treatment for the disease. Sierra Leone is on track to eliminate these two neglected tropical diseases by 2030.<\/p>\n

Worthy of note is that World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day is celebrated every year on January 30th with the aim of drawing attention to neglected diseases and motivate communities to continue to participate in prevention, including taking part in campaigns to distribute medicines and to practice good hygiene to further reduce the spread of those diseases.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme for World Neglected tropical diseases day is \u201cAdvancing Health Equity to End the Neglect of Poverty-Related Diseases\u201d.<\/p>\n

The statement from the US Embassy says the United States, through USAID, remains strongly committed to supporting the people and Government of Sierra Leone in eliminating bigfoot and river blindness, and bringing under control other parasitic diseases that can be prevented and treated.<\/p>\n

It further stated that the partnership between the Governments of the United States and Sierra Leone and with civil society through Helen Keller International is enabling Sierra Leone to distribute over 125 million medicines valued at over $267 million of donated drugs.<\/p>\n

Based on the statement, those campaigns are crucial to combat neglected tropical diseases endemic in Sierra Leone, including Lymphatic Filariasis (bigfoot), Onchocerciasis (river blindness), Soil Transmitted Helminths (worms) and Schistosomiasis (mansoni).<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United States Government, through the Agency for International Development (USAID), has supported the Government of Sierra Leone by providing medicines to entire communities through campaigns every year to eliminate several neglected tropical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,12],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"\nUS Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United Stat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United Stat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-04T15:47:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-04T16:04:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-04T15:47:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-04T16:04:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\"},\"wordCount\":344,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Sierra-Leone\",\"Sierra-Leone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\",\"name\":\"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases - Sierra Leone\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-04T15:47:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-04T16:04:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United Stat ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":570,\"caption\":\"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/\",\"name\":\"Sierra Leone\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases - Sierra Leone","description":"By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United Stat ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases","og_description":"By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United Stat ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases","og_site_name":"Sierra Leone","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-02-04T15:47:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-02-04T16:04:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":570,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases","datePublished":"2022-02-04T15:47:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-04T16:04:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases"},"wordCount":344,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Sierra-Leone","Sierra-Leone"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases","name":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases - Sierra Leone","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-04T15:47:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-04T16:04:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"By Amin Kef Sesay In a statement issued by the US Embassy in Sierra Leone, it was indicated that the United Stat ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/02\/img-61fd4e6d41bdd.jpg","width":720,"height":570,"caption":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/us-medical-support-helps-in-reducing-transmission-of-harmful-tropical-diseases#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"US Medical Support Helps in Reducing Transmission of Harmful Tropical Diseases"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/","name":"Sierra Leone","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}