Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
July 12, 2016
Mercy Krua is a Liberian refugee who lives in Boston. Her son, Jefferson Krua, was also a Liberian refugee. But he decided to move back to Liberia and make his life there. In part, he says, because no matter how much money he could make in the US, he would always be a black man in America.
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Health & Medicine
Liberia's hottest hip-hop station has all the latest Ebola music and news
PRI's The World
September 02, 2014
One of Liberia's most popular hip-hop stations is taking its young audience and the Ebola crisis seriously. Hott FM is quickly becoming Monrovia's best source for 24/7 Ebola coverage — through both news updates and the hottest songs. Have a listen.
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Health & Medicine
Where Ebola hits home in the United States
PRI's The World
September 25, 2014
As the Ebola crisis grows, a California church is helping one community with strong ties to Liberia cope.
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Health & Medicine
Fear in Liberia turns violent as a mob attacks an Ebola clinic
PRI's The World
August 18, 2014
More than a dozen Ebola patients in Liberia have gone missing after a mob attacked and looted a Monrovia-area health facility. Now, the Liberian government fears that infected individuals are returning to their communities, where they risk spreading the virus.
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Health & Medicine
As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia's schools begin re-opening
PRI's The World
February 16, 2015
In Liberia, the first thing pupils do is have their temperatures taken. Schools had been shut for seven months after the Ebola outbreak.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Once a refugee, she's opened one of Liberia's few bookstores, where children can read about themselves
PRI's The World
January 30, 2016
Updated
It's hard to learn to read when your country has been torn apart by war and disease. It's even harder when children's books come from far away. But Wayétu Moore, whose family fled Liberia's civil war when she was five, is setting out to change the odds for kids in Liberia and other countries with low literacy.
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Health & Medicine
Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him
PRI's The World
October 02, 2014
With every disease, physical and mental trauma go hand in hand. Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, a Norwegian psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, helped treat the latter during her time in Ebola treatment centers in West Africa. That's where she struck up a friendship with Patrick, a 6-year-old patient.
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Health & Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
PRI's The World
October 30, 2014
It's been 21 days since registered nurse Deborah Wilson worked with Ebola patients in Liberia. That means she's Ebola-free. She's proud of the work she did with Ebola patients, but it's made life difficult — not because of illness, but because of stigmatization from even her closest friends.
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Liberia's forgotten prisoners
PRI's The World
February 24, 2011
Thousands of people sit in Liberian jails for years, awaiting trial. Now there's a program aimed at fast-tracking these cases and getting people out of pre-trial detention. Jess Engebreston sits in on one of the proceedings.
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Health & Medicine
A Liberian describes the hard reality of Ebola: 'You're running even from people you love'
PRI's The World
July 31, 2014
The ebola crisis has so overwhelmed some hospitals in Liberia, that patients are being treated in their homes. Markets in border areas are being closed, as well as schools. Liberia's Information Minister Lewis Brown says the country's frightened health care workers need counseling.
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Health & Medicine
An epidemiologist suggests we take cues from the AIDS crisis in dealing with Ebola
PRI's The World
November 18, 2014
While it may seem as though media attention surrounding the Ebola outbreak has dwindled, President Barack Obama has said that "we are nowhere near out of the woods yet in West Africa" — meaning volunteers are still needed. Physician and epidemiologist Sharon McDonnell is one of those volunteers, and she says her experience working during the AIDS crisis offers her some perspective.