The Ministry of Health & Sanitation (MoHS) believes that access to sound health is a human right, its vision is to ensure a functional national health system delivering efficient, high quality health care services that are accessible, equitable and affordable for everybody in Sierra Leone and the overall goal is to maintain and improve the health of its citizens.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of facilities offered PMTCT services. All facilities providing PMTCT services offered HCT for pregnant women. Fifty-three percent (53%) of facilities provided HCT to HIV-positive women and exposed infants. Notably, one of...
The data at the district level were found to be of quite high quality, as seen by a VF of 100% for four of five indicators. Completeness of reporting was also high, nearly 100% for all indicators. The evaluation of completeness of data elements...
HCT services were available at 62% of all facilities. The greatest availability was in the Western urban district, at 88%, and the least in Moyamba district, at 41% (data not shown). CHCs had the highest availability of HCT services (96%). Urban...
The services that were highly available included male condoms, oral contraceptives and emergency contraceptive pills. However, HCT, ART and intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) insertion services were not commonly available for adolescents....
Results for the data verification of the 3rd dose of pentavalent vaccine (Penta 3) indicator are presented in this table *PENTA3** **facility level data verification factor indicators, by region, facility type, managing authority, and milieu (N=...
In a sample of health facilities, it is likely to find some facilities that over-report (VF < 1.0) and some that under-report (VF > 1.0). Summarizing the VFs across health facilities involves adding the recounted (or validated) values and...
