{"id":199,"date":"2025-10-09T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=199"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:28:39","slug":"199-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/news\/199-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Joins CHAMPS\u2019 Global Network!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull page-header-standard fade-in-on-load\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1391\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live-champs-new.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Picture1-1.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-70 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#7a604a\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading text-center\">Sierra Leone Joins CHAMPS\u2019 Global Network!<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group fade-in-on-load\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full case-study-image fae-in-on-load\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-champs-new.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Picture1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1391\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"publication-meta\"> \n\n<p class=\"publication-date\"> 29\/01\/2018 <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"publication-share\">\n\n<span class=\"share\">Share: <\/span> <ul> \n\n<li class=\"publication-share-facebook\"> <a href=\"\"> <i class=\"fa fa-facebook\"> <\/i> <\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"publication-share-facebook\"> <a href=\"\"> <i class=\"fa-brands fa fa-x-twitter\"><\/i> <\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"publication-share-instagran\"> <a href=\"\"> <i class=\"fa-brands fa fa-instagram\"><\/i> <\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n <\/div>\n  <p class=\"publication-title\">Sierra Leone Joins CHAMPS\u2019 Global Network! <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group content-white\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left w-85 margin-auto\"><strong>Sierra Leone will join other African and South Asian countries as the newest site, bringing CHAMPS\u2019 life-saving effort to new&nbsp;partners in West&nbsp;Africa. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sierra Leone joins CHAMPS as the seventh site, adding new West African partners to the global CHAMPS network of over 100+ partners. Sierra Leone has some of the highest rates of child mortality in the world, and as a CHAMPS site will have access to life saving data and resources to address this dire public health challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>Children in low-resource countries are dying at an alarming rate. Sadly, that\u2019s no different in Sierra Leone. With a population of more than seven million, the under-five mortality rate in this West African country is one of the highest, at 115 deaths per 1000 live births. Quality data are urgently needed to inform&nbsp;evidence-based policies that can prevent death, and give each child the opportunity to live and thrive beyond the age of five. CHAMPS is working with our partners at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/health.gov.sl\/\">Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crownagents.com\/home\">Crown Agents<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/phii.org\/\">Public Health Informatics Institute<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianphi.org\/\">International Association of National Public Health Institutes<\/a>, to make this life-saving effort a reality for this community and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left w-65 margin-auto\">And now, along with:<a href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/sites-south-africa\/\">Soweto, South Africa<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/sites-mozambique\/\">Manhi\u00e7a, Mozambique<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/sites-kenya\/\">Kisumu, Kenya<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/sites-ethiopia\/\">Harar, Ethiopia<\/a>;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/sites-bangladesh\/\">Baliakandi, Bangladesh<\/a>; and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/sites-mali\/\">Bamako, Mali;<\/a>&nbsp;our network will collect and share data to help save young lives in&nbsp;Makeni, Sierra Leone, too.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone will join other African and South Asian countries as the newest site, bringing CHAMPS\u2019 life-saving effort to new\u00a0partners in West\u00a0Africa. \u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/news\/199-2\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Sierra Leone Joins CHAMPS\u2019 Global Network!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/199\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thearchealth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}