Partners

WHO

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

The agreement between the WHO and the countries of the Mano River Union for tackling Lassa Fever is available at http://www.who.int/csr/disease/lassafever/lassafevercontroldeclaration.pdf

The BRCS is a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation which helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. For their international work go to http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=40164

The project we help fund is the Community Based Healthcare Programme – see http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=93307

For other work of the BRCS with the SLRCS see http://search.redcross.org.uk/search?entqr=0&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&q=sierra+leone&filter=0&ud=1&site=default_collection&oe=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&ip=86.155.40.110&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1

SLRCS

The SLRCS is our implementation partner. It has previous experience of working with Lassa Fever and it is part of its Appeal for 2008/9 – for more information see http://www.ifrc.org/docs/appeals/annual08/MAASL001app.pdf .

For background information on the SLRCS see http://www.ifrc.org/cgi/pdf_profile.pl?slprofile.pdf