Advocacy
Pressing for NCDs to hold their place in national health budgets, policy and the essential medicines list.
About the Alliance
One voice for a burden that has no single owner.
Non-communicable disease does not sit neatly inside one programme. It runs across cardiology, oncology, endocrinology, primary care, nutrition and mental health, and it lands hardest on households that can least afford it. That fragmentation is why a national alliance exists.
We bring together member organisations across patient groups, professional associations, research institutions and civil society. We work alongside the Ministry of Health and Sanitation rather than around it.
Our purpose is straightforward. Make the burden visible, hold the national strategy to its own targets, and make sure people living with these conditions are in the room when decisions are made about them.
Our mission
To reduce preventable death and disability from non-communicable disease in Sierra Leone by uniting the organisations working on it and holding national commitments to account.
Our vision
A Sierra Leone where every person living with a chronic condition can be diagnosed early, treated close to home and supported for as long as they need it.
Alliance members and partners at a coordination meeting in Freetown.
What we do
Four areas of work, drawn from the gaps our members meet every day.
Evidence
Gathering what is known about the burden in Sierra Leone and putting it somewhere people can find it.
Patient voice
Supporting patient groups so people living with these conditions speak for themselves rather than being spoken about.
Capacity
Backing training and mentoring for the frontline workers who carry most of the chronic care in this country.
Our members and partners
Patient groups, coalitions, government and multilateral partners working on NCDs in Sierra Leone.
World Health Organization
Sierra Leone country office
Ministry of Health
Sierra Leone
Freetown City Council
NCDI Poverty Network
Sierra Leone Commission
Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Pujehun PEN-Plus clinic
Partners In Health
Kono district
Lung Health Centre
Breathing well matters
Coalition Against Tobacco
Sierra Leone
Mental Health Coalition
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Alcohol Policy Alliance
SLAPA
Health for All Coalition
HFAC
Sierra Leone Diabetes Education and Treatment Association
Sierra Leone Sickle Cell Disease Society
Sierra Leone Sickle Cell Disease Foundation
SLSCDF
Sickle Cell Carers Awareness Network
SCCAN
Kidney Savers Foundation
Parene Health
COMAHS
University of Sierra Leone