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Sierra Leone: Training faith leaders for better health information outcomes

By Kemo Cham

For 10 years, as head of the Freetown District of the Wesleyan Church of Sierra Leone, Rev. Alie Sehdu Conteh never directly engaged with the media.

Even when he was encouraged to do so to publicize the good work of his church, he couldn’t bring himself to entertain journalists around him.

“I didn’t think that I had anything to do with the media. After all, my church was running well,” the soft-spoken clergyman, whose church is one of the most prominent Christian denominations in the country, says.

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