Highlights
As of 4 February 2015, according to the Government of Sierra Leone, the cumulative number of laboratory confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases is 8,098. The number of confirmed deaths is 2,936. Total survived and discharged cases is 2,204.
UNICEF convened the first Social Mobilization implementing partner’s forum, in cooperation with MOH, and UNMEER, on Friday 30 January 2015. More than 80 partners convened in Freetown to recognize social mobilization achievements in the Ebola response and agree on the way forward at this stage in the epidemic.
The Government is leading intensive planning to re-open more than 8,000 schools by the end of March 2015. A shutdown caused by the Ebola crisis has left 1.8 million children out of school.
The UNICEF-led Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) network have identified 16,351 children as being directly affected by the Ebola crisis (8,212 girls and 8,139 boys), with 8,226 children having lost one or both parents to Ebola and 578 unaccompanied or separated from their caregiver. 9,534 Ebola-affected children have been provided with psychosocial support.
UNICEF Sierra Leone requires USD 178 million for its response to the Ebola crisis until end of June 2015. To date, USD 115.7 million has been received – 65 percent of the total.
