In the wake of a sweltering condition in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol Building due to lack of electricity, the Senate yesterday abruptly adjourned session after barely forty-five minutes.
From a loaded two-page agenda, the Senate presided over firstly by Protempore Albert Tugbe Chie and Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, the only two items handled were the 4G induction of re-elected Sinoe County Senator Augustine Chea, who was last weekend certificated by the National Elections Commission; and the reading of a communication from Senator H. Varney G Sherman, calling the attention of the Senate to inchoate problems associated with the 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections.
Liberia: UNFPA, Swedish Government Launch Sexual Reproductive Health Program in Sinoe County
Liberia: UNFPA, Swedish Government Launch Sexual Reproductive Health Program in Sinoe County
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Giving the overview, Dr. Ndyanabangi said the program was launched in 2017 in Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru and River Gee counties due to statistics which show high teenage pregnancy rate in the southeastern region.
Greenville, Sinoe County – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with funding from the Swedish government has extended its Sexual and Reproductive Health Program targeting adolescent boys and girls to Sinoe County.
The program was launched over the weekend in Greenville, the capital of Sinoe at a colorful event attended by officials of the United Nations and the Government of Liberia including UN Resident Coordinator, Neils Scott, the Minister of Health, Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah and UNFPA Country Representative, Dr. Bannet Ndyanabangi.
Participants during the launch at the program.
The Swedish Government through the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has extended its Youth Friendly Centre that provides education to both boys and girls on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) to Sinoe County.
The decision to extend the BRAC implemented program comes shortly after joint members of a high delegation that included Ingrid Wetterqvist, Swedish Ambassador to Liberia, UNFPA Country Representative, Dr. Bannet Ndyanabangi, and Assistant Minister for Curative Services, Ministry of Health, Dr. Gorbee Logan, gathered many positive success stories from Grand Gedeh and River Gee counties where there is reportedly a huge reduction in teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality.
Complacency and mistrust in government mean Liberians are turning their backs on Covid jabs
In a country with a low number of cases, people are unsure why they need to be vaccinated
The first shipments of Covax vaccines arrive in west Africa in February
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In a country that has seen just over 2,000 official cases of Covid and 85 deaths, it is easy to understand why Liberia has found it hard to muster a lot of enthusiasm for a Covid vaccine.
It took almost four weeks from the shipment of 96,000 doses of the AstraZeneca jab - via the Covax vaccine sharing initiative - arriving in the capital Monrovia to the first shot going into an arm.
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