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Liberia Rallies Partners To Address Stigma and Discrimination To End HIV By 2030 With PEPFAR’s…
By: Melvin Jackson
The Liberian Government through the National AIDS Commission is rallying partners in the National HIV response in the country to address societal…
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Key Actors In Liberia Support Abortion Law, Want Human Rights Protected
By: M. Dennise Nimpson/LHRJN Fellow
In Liberia, abortion beyond the 24th week of pregnancy is considered illegal. Women who perform abortions as well as people who assist them with…
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Liberian Schools Heighten Efforts For Menstrual Hygiene Support For Adolescent Girls
By: Romelia P. George/LHRJN Fellow
The United Nations Children Education Funds (UNICEF) 2020 report revealed that 1.8 billion women and adolescent girls across the world menstruate,…
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Liberia Lacks Updated National HIV Data, As Gov’t’s Institutions Remain Silent
By: Siaway T. Miapue/LHRJN Fellow
Like other countries, Liberia is expected to end AIDs by 2030 as a public health threat.
For this to happen, a country must have updated national…
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Stakeholders Doubtful Over Liberia’s Preparedness To End AIDS By 2030
By: Gloria Wleh/LHRN Fellow
The United Nations in its Seventy-fifth Session on June 8, 2021, adopted a political declaration pledging “urgent, transformative action to stop global…
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The Shining Story of Liberia’s HIV PMTCT Program Celebrated, But….
By: Nyantee S. Togba, LHRJN Fellow
In 2004, the HIV Prevention from Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program was set up by Global Strategies for HIV Prevention, an NGO based in…
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Liberian CSOs: “Stigma, Discrimination Hindering Key Populations’ Involvement To End AIDS”
By: Christophina P. Nyanneh, LHRJN Fellow
Like other countries in the world, Liberia seems to be making progress toward reaching the 95-95-95 strategy adopted in 2016 by the United…
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Stakeholders Highlight Key Populations, PLHIV Access To Health Services in Liberia
By: Taisiah K. Merfee, LHRJN Fellow
Liberia has a generalized HIV epidemic with the reproductive-aged population showing an HIV prevalence of 2.1%, according to the 2013 Liberia…
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LIPRDE Urges Persons Living With HIV To Adhere To Treatment
By: Necus M. Andrews
The Liberia Initiative for the Promotion of Rights, Identity, Diversity, and Equality (LIPRIDE), is urging persons living with HIV in the country to remain…
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