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LIBERIA: Less cholera with bet...

LIBERIA: Less cholera with better hygiene

IRIN
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Faced with unsafe water and poor sanitation systems, aid groups in Liberia are encouraging people to wash their hands, put bleach in drinking water...
LIBERIA: National disaster rel...

LIBERIA: National disaster relief agency inoperable for years

IRIN
Friday, September 14, 2007
Liberian officials say the government must reinstate its agency responsible for responding to natural disasters, which has been defunct since the...
LIBERIA: Juvenile justice syst...

LIBERIA: Juvenile justice system in tatters

IRIN
Friday, September 14, 2007
A teenager accused of rape, Abraham peers through the rusty bars of his prison cell where he has languished for two months. His wide eyes and...
LIBERIA: Floods displace hundr...

LIBERIA: Floods displace hundreds in Monrovia

IRIN
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Flooding has cut off piped water to a quarter million people in the capital, Monrovia, displacing hundreds of people and destroying or severely...
LIBERIA: HIV rates lower than ...

LIBERIA: HIV rates lower than feared

IRIN
Monday, August 27, 2007
Reliable statistics on HIV/AIDS have been hard to come by in Liberia, slowly recovering from years of conflict, but two recently released surveys...
LIBERIA: Too few rice seeds to...

LIBERIA: Too few rice seeds to sow

IRIN
Friday, July 20, 2007
The difficulty in acquiring seed rice during the current planting season is having a negative effect on rice farming in rural Liberia where there...
LIBERIA: New programme to prev...

LIBERIA: New programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission gains momentum

PlusNews
Friday, July 13, 2007
Thousands of pregnant women have been tested for HIV since Liberia introduced a programme to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmissions (PMTCT) eight...
LIBERIA: Uncontrolled trash gr...

LIBERIA: Uncontrolled trash greatest public health threat in Monrovia - UN

IRIN
Saturday, July 7, 2007
As mountains of garbage expand in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the UN Environment Programme has called on the government and private sector to...
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