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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.

The article focuses on war-crimes survey of Sierra Leone's 150 chiefdoms. Following the conflict in Sierra Leone, the country is still recovering, and life expectancy there is only 40. Jana Asher, of Science and Human Rights Program at American Association for the Advancement of Science, and her colleagues surveyed the remote regions in Sierra Leone to get a closer view of the damage. They are reanalyzing the data on human-rights violations to document humanitarian needs. After the reassessment, the group plans to release a needs map for the country, which include preparations to help rebuild homes and properties that were destroyed during the fighting.

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.