The US AIDS program is helping the country reach the UNAIDS global goal: 95% of people living with HIV to know their status; 95% of those who know their status to be on treatment; 95% of those on treatment to have achieved viral suppression by 2030

85.000 people are currently struggling with epilepsy throughout the country, revealed Max Bangura, executive director of the Sierra Leone Epilepsy Association

National emergency has been declared for growing abuse of kush, a psychoactive mixture of addictive substances made also from human bones affecting 63% of patients of Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital; security has also been tightened at cemeteries

Deaths of victims who have taken the substance known as kush are spreading across the country; often the bodies go unidentified and unclaimed

President Julius Maada Bio hailed China's continued support for infrastructure development during his state visit to China, his second since assuming the presidency