{"id":174621,"date":"2024-06-16T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lube-shortage-worries-lgbtq-community\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T05:44:13","slug":"liberia-lube-shortage-worries-lgbtq-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lube-shortage-worries-lgbtq-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Lube &#8216;Shortage&#8217; Worries LGBTQ+ Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Monrovia \u2014 According to members of the LGBTQ+ community, access to lubricants has become a major source of concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"91\">Lubricants (or &#8220;lube&#8221;) play an important role in safe sex, because they help to reduce friction &#8211; which protects condoms from breaking, and also helps prevent a person from experiencing cuts or abrasions (which can lead to an increased risk for contracting HIV and\/or other sexually transmitted infections). In previous years, the global health organization, Population Services&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406140660.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 According to members of the LGBTQ+ community, access to lubricants has become a major source of concern. Lubricants (or &#8220;lube&#8221;) play an important role in safe sex, because they help to reduce friction &#8211; which protects condoms from breaking, and also helps prevent a person from experiencing cuts or abrasions (which can lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7963,16309,4712,1107,48788,257,9467,254,9453],"class_list":["post-174621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-community","tag-lgbtq","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lube","tag-news","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worries"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}