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The article discusses the deployment by the British Defence Medical Services (DMS) of humanitarian assistance to the Sierra Leonean government in response to the Ebola crisis. Topics covered include the development of DMS Ebola Treatment Facility (ETF) to care for health care workers, the association of the junior doctors' strike with access to the ETF and the primary constraint to admission of health care workers.

Discusses a project to reduce the prevalence of AIDS in the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Action by the World Bank to allocate money to Sierra Leone; Uncertainty of exact figures on the extent of AIDS; Efforts to determine how far the disease has spread; Goals of the project, including AIDS prevention and care; Focus on community and civil society-based initiatives.

Considers the food shortage that threatens Sierra Leone. The report by the World Food Programme (WFP) of the ever-worsening shortage of food; The supply needed by the WFP; The lack of safe passage that has hindered delivery of medicine and food; The numbers reported malnourished. INSET: Uncertainty remains over health-care provision in Sierra Leone.

Discusses the social climate of Sierra Leone as of June 1, 1997 after an attempted coup by dissident members of the west African nation's armed forces. The relocation to Guinea of president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah; Reports from the World Food Programme and International Committee of the Red Cross; Actions of Doctors Without Borders.