A new survey shows 9 out of 10 Liberian women take antibiotics monthly after their period—often without prescriptions. Experts call the practice catastrophic, warning it fuels antibiotic resistance and threatens public health nationwide. Gloria Wleh reports in this social media Video. To read more about this story click this link: Liberia: Nine Out of Every…
By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives Summary: DUAZON, Margibi County — On a recent weekday, L. had just ended her four days of monthly menstruation. The next day the 18-year-old walked into a small drug store beside the main road here as she does every month. With no prescription, she asked the drug dispenser for…
We all know waste management is a crisis in Monrovia and Paynesville where mounds of trash line streets and block drainage causing major headaches. But it’s also a problem across rural Liberia where there is very little or no waste collection at all. People are forced to burn their trash adding to air pollution and…
COUNTRIES ACROSS AFRICA ARE CLOSELY MONITORING CASES OF AN OUTBREAK OF MPOX DISEASE. THE DISEASE HAS LONG SICKENED PEOPLE IN WEST AFRICA BUT IT HAS BEEN FAIRLY MILD WITH JUST ONE IN ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE DYING AFTER INFECTION. THAT HAS CHANGED IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO WHERE MORE THAN THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE…
By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives ST. PAUL BRIDGE, Montserrado County – Musu sits in a circle in a small community office here. Dozens of community members – mostly women – listen as she tells her story. Musu was just 15 when a commander with the National Patriotic Front of Liberia took her from her…
By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives SINJE, Grand Cape Mount County – Asata’s war experience would make anyone cry. In 1996, when she was 22 years old, Asata says a group of five older rebels from the ULIMO K faction gang raped her. She was left emotionally and physically scarred. Before the rape Asata dreamed…
Since the end of the civil conflicts in 2003 there has been no comprehensive assessment of the state of Liberians mental health. But experts say there is no doubt that at least a million of us are suffering.And as Liberia begins the process to hold accused perpetrators to account in a war crimes court, experts…
By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives Liberia’s Ministry of Health and the National Public Health Institute have expressed concern over a rapid increase in mpox cases in neighboring Sierra Leone. The country has reported a total of 2,634 confirmed mpox cases and 14 deaths, marking a significant increase since the country’s first cases were identified…
Doctors in Liberia are sounding the alarm that rampant misuse of antimicrobial drugs is fueling the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs” that are killing thousands and leaving sick people defenseless against common infections, as families give antibiotics without medical guidance and the threat of antimicrobial resistance grows into a major public health crisis. Gloria Wleh reports…
Medical Experts are raising a warning saying more and more people are staying sick because the medicines meant to kill harmful germs that cause malaria, diarrhea and other dangerous illnesses —aren’t working anymore.The reason? Many Liberians are using antibiotics and other powerful drugs the wrong way, and that misuse is making these medicines weaker and…
By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives Summary: • Many Liberians are misusing antibiotics, antiparasitic, antifungal and antiviral drugs without prescriptions, creating what experts call “superbugs” – infections that are resistant to commonly available drugs. • Families are spending hundreds of U.S. dollars on ineffective treatments as superbugs lead to prolonged illnesses and hospital stays, with…
By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives Liberia is witnessing a significant uptick in suspected Mpox cases, with the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) reporting 767 suspected cases. The country has also recorded an increase in confirmed cases, with 75 active infections as of May 29, 2025. This marks a substantial jump from earlier…
Countries across Africa are on guard as a more severe strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has killed 1000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and sickened more than 30,000….
Junior cries to his mother as another stranger approaches the front of their house. The two-year-old has met too many new people since he came down with mpox in August….
Liberia is set to receive 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to help protect the country from the outbreak which has claimed at least 1,000 lives worldwide….
