Japan has made a grant of 1.3 mil­lion dol­lars US to Sierra Leone for fight­ing the spread of infec­tions dis­eases. The grant comes at a time when the coun­try has expe­ri­enced an increase in the amount of deaths from malaria. Japan is one of the biggest con­trib­u­tors to Sierra Leone giv­ing them over 20 mil­lion dol­lars since 1998.

From Sierra Leone news­pa­per Coco­rioko, writer Issa Davies describes what the money will be used for.

The goal of the project is to con­tribute to the reduc­tion of child and mater­nal mor­tal­ity by one-third by 2010 through low cost, high impact inter­ven­tions from health per­son­nel, fam­i­lies and communities.

These inter­ven­tions will focus on malaria, acute res­pi­ra­tory infec­tions, diar­rhoea, HIV/AIDS treat­ment and pre­ven­tion and an expanded pro­gramme on immu­niza­tion as well as mater­nal and child nutri­tion.
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The project tar­gets chil­dren under the age of five years, preg­nant women and young moth­ers in all the 13 dis­tricts in Sierra Leone. About 1.1 mil­lion dol­lars will be used to pro­cure bed nets and other essen­tial drugs in order to reduce the preva­lence of malaria and other pre­ventable dis­eases espe­cially among preg­nant women and chil­dren under the age of five.

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