UN Agency Updates
IOM
A high level delegation from IOM HQ, Regional Office Dakar and US CDC is visiting Sierra Leone from 10-14 July as part of a West Africa assessment tour of IOM’s Health and Humanitarian Border Management programming.
Delegates have assessed health screening and flow monitoring operations in Kambia and Freetown with colleagues from WHO and identified areas for future collaboration.
IOM’s Magazine Wharf outbreak response is entering week 3 with a commitment of 8 training staff to work in 8 area PHUs.
As of 13 July, IOM clinicians will begin Infection Prevention and Control training targeting hospitals support to King’s College of London training staff at Connaught Hospital. In the following weeks similar support will be extended to Princess Christian’s Maternity and Ola Children’s Hospitals.
During the coming week, the final community based trainings in 880 communities in Kambia on emergency interim care kits will be completed and a partners meeting held with ACF, ABC Development and the District Health Management Teams to discuss priorities moving forward.
UNFPA
As of 13 July 2015 three districts had contacts being followed up by enhanced contact tracers – Kambia, Port Loko and Western Area Urban - with a total of 854 contacts being followed up.
Since the beginning of the outbreak, a cumulative total of 98,693 known contacts have been monitored nationwide and 95,574 (97%) finished their 21 days.
In districts with no transmission, enhanced contact tracers continued active case search and reporting alerts of illnesses and deaths to the district headquarters. In Kenema district, a border meeting was held in Gorahun, Tunkia Chiefdom to mobilise the neighbourhood watch to report any visitor crossing into Sierra Leone.