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The Interview: Can malaria be eradicated?

By Kemo Cham

In 2019 Sierra Leone joined the continental campaign - dubbed ‘Zero Malaria Starts With Me (ZMSWM)’ – to eliminate malaria, when the government signed the African Union (AU) pact earlier agreed by heads of state of member countries.

The way forward for the Malaria Media Coalition in Sierra Leone

By Kemo Cham

“All malaria commodities are free,” said Dr Saini Turay, an official of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), while elaborating on the Sierra Leone government’s malaria treatment policy.

"Even if you have severe malaria, all the commodities are free," he stressed.

On the table where I sat in the conference hall of the Catco

International Hotel, it turned out that two of us had personal experiences that negated the point the speaker was trying desperately to emphasise on.

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