Primary health care and family medicine in Sierra Leone

This article is a country profile of Sierra Leone describing the state of primary health care and family medicine in early 2019. Family medicine in Sierra Leone faces many challenges but recent changes in the location of the training programme encourage optimism that it may become better established within the next few years.

Keywords: Sierra Leone; family medicine; postgraduate training.

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that he has no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced him in writing this article.

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