HEALSL - Saving Lives by Tracking Causes of Death
Healthy Sierra Leone
Healthy Sierra Leone (HEAL-SL) aims to improve the lives of Sierra Leoneans by producing annual data on mortality and causes of death at national and subnational levels for government and health policy-makers to use.
HEAL-SL Launch - 04/12/2023
Our Goals
Establish the Sierra Leone SRS - UPDATED
HEAL-SL is supporting the SL government to develop and implement a sample registration system (SRS) of births and deaths with cause of death using verbal autopsy. SL-SRS tracks 5-8% of total population, deaths, stillbirths, and pregnancies. updated
MITS testing of child deaths in Bo
HEAL-SL is collaborating with CHAMPS to support Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling (MITS) for 200 child deaths, with Bo District as the starting site. Biological confirmation of child deaths is a novel addition to understanding cause of death.
Strengthen routine death reporting
HEAL-SL helps the SL government by strengthening routine death reporting, mortality system integration, and use of data, including linkage with the 117 phone reporting system. As a result, we hope to improve the local statistics on child and adult mortality.
Produce targeted verbal autopsy tool
The targeted VA tool will carry out a sub-study on adult febrile deaths. The focused study in Bo explores whether malaria causes a substantial proportion of adult acute febrile deaths as it does for children.
Our Partners
NPHA - National Public Health Agency (SL)
NPHA plays a pivotal role in the prevention, detection, and response to public health threats through a highly efficient and effective public health agency. The NPHA is a science-based government organization that serves as a focal point for leadership, expertise, and coordination to address public health concerns in line with national public health needs and global health security requirements.
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