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<p>DFID is supporting the President’s Recovery Plan (PRP) that focuses on delivering
its two health priorities to strengthen Sierra Leone’s health system post Ebola. They
are:</p><p>(i) Prevent, detect and respond to epidemics to ensure zero cases of Ebola.
DFID is providing £38.5million to support epidemic preparedness in the country by
strengthening disease surveillance, laboratory services, maintaining a rapid deployable
treatment centre and monitoring Ebola survivors. This programme has been operational
since December 2015 and will finish in December 2017.</p><p>(ii) Saving the Lives
of 600 women and 5,000 children. DFID is providing £150million over five years (2016
– 2021) to support the Government’s saving lives target by June 2017 and then increase
the availability and quality of Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child and Adolescent
Health (RMNCAH) services by 2021. This is being done by equipping emergency obstetric
centres, providing adolescent reproductive health services, increasing the availability
of skilled health workers and by providing bed nets and free medicines to mothers
and children. This programme commenced implementation this month.</p><p>Each health
priority has a clearly defined work plan with milestones and is coordinated by the
Ministry of Health. Progress against the milestones is monitored and reported weekly
with the President reviewing progress each fortnight. District surveillance reports
are submitted weekly to track the incidence of notifiable diseases (such as Ebola,
Cholera and Lassa fever), detect clusters of unexplained deaths and trigger immediate
investigation. In additional DFID is engaging in the longer term planning to strengthen
Sierra Leone’s health system, including the development of a five year RMNCAH strategy.</p><p>
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