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Home » Projects » Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Even before health structures were eroded by Ebola, Sierra Leone was a poor country with minimal mental health services.  Ebola added stigma, trauma and poverty to existing stresses – burial procedures were imposed that conflicted with cultural customs, worsening grief.  Poverty rose when quarantine prevented people from working, and misinformation fuelled stigma and social exclusion.  People lost businesses, possessions, food, homes and family breadwinners.  Mental health provision in Sierra Leone amounts to one retired psychiatrist and another who works for the Army; one clinical psychologist in private practice; 19 mental health nurses who graduated in 2012, and one government psychiatric hospital where patients are in chains.  Health workers have little or no mental health training.

Health workers mhGAP training

Life-Changing Mental Health Support

2018-2020

Community Mental Health and Covid-19 Support in Port Loko District

2020

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With your financial support Network for Africa can give the counselling training needed to help resourceful and resilient community members leave the harmful legacy of conflict behind.

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