Sierra Leone: Health Minister Pledges Sierra Leone’s Commitment to a 24 Percent Increase in Vaccination Uptake

The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Austin Demby, has in a meeting with ministers of health from West and Central Africa, committed to up scaling Sierra Leone’s vaccination uptake from 46 to 70% by December 2022.

The communique was signed at a meeting organised by the UN, African CDC, IOM, and the Vaccine Improvement Initiative in West and Central Africa (VIIWCA).

The overarching objective of the meeting was to firm up commitments to providing financial aid in support of the ECOWAS/…