HIV and AIDS remain a major problem to poor countries of the world. While some die daily from AIDS, others who are merely infected with the HIV contend with the twin burden of stigma and fear of death. These problems are compounded if there is no care and support to people with HIV and AIDS. Moreover, an assessment of carers In Sierra Leone, showed that they were 55 percent efficient in providing much needed care for people living with HIV and AIDS, and much of the inefficiencies observed were logistics related.

Sierra Leone is still painfully crawling out of a decade-long civil strife that plunged the nation into decades of retrogression. The economy of the country plummeted during the war periods of 1991 to 2001; human resources dwindled, health care services where abysmal and there was a general resource poverty and its accompanying traits of malnutrition. During the war periods, a platform for disease transmission and spread was set causing many to die from curable as well as incurable diseases. The spread of tuberculosis was favoured by the war related congestion, malnutrition and poor...

The resources of nature are under siege from anthropogenic activities exacerbated by rapid global population growth. Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems but they are fast becoming the most threatened habitats and the backlash of such a trend is catastrophic to humanity. The preference of biological assessment over chemical assessment is due to the the advantage that the former has in revealing ecological integrity values of wetlands. Phytoremediation expecially with Vetiveria zizanoides is promising for wetland reclamation and is inferior to no other option. This pathway is...